Examples of using Mining agents in English and their translations into Arabic
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(e) Recruit and train more mining agents and mining police to cover all validated mines;
As reported previously(see S/2006/379, para. 37), the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy hastrained 67 mineral inspectors and 47 mining agents.
Many mining agents appear to have limited training, equipment and understanding of the rules.
Provincial mining authorities anda member of the cooperative at Kalimbi told the Group that local mining agents at Nyabibwe facilitate the smuggling.
In some cases, Mining Agents actively attempt to prevent the interference of other agencies in mining areas.
UNMIL helped to train, equip and deploy mineral inspectors and mining agents to implement the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme procedures.
As reported in document S/2005/745, the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy has successfullytrained 67 Ministry mineral inspectors and 47 Ministry mining agents.
The Group has been informed by Congolese mining agents, as well as international buyers of cassiterite, that Mr. Muyeye also supplies African Ventures Ltd.
The poor administration of the alluvial mining sector is compounded by a lack of proactive management by Ministry of Lands,Mines and Energy mineral inspectors and mining agents.
This cooperation enables Cooperamma and mining agents to harmonize statistics and thereby hide a certain amount of production, which is smuggled through Goma to Rwanda.
They could also be more effectively integrated within the broader structure of the Ministry andwork more effectively with other employees, such as mining agents, inspectors and patrolmen.
The Group observed that administrative papers issued to government mining agents in South Kivu has largely diminished in 2009, making it far more difficult to obtain documentary evidence.
This included building capacity and training officials working on the implementation of the Kimberley Process, such as Government DiamondOffice staff, mineral inspectors, mining agents and customs, police, immigration, banking and finance officials.
Moreover, 65 mineral inspectors and 46 mining agents have been trained and assigned to the interior of the country to institute Kimberley Process certification scheme procedures.
As noted in the last report, the Government carried out a sensitization programme for miners, brokers and dealers,as well as training of Government officials(Customs, mining agents, regional officers) after joining the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
The Group received official documents from Government mining agents who stopped a consignment of minerals in Butembo that had been undervalued at a trading site near Bisie and trucked through Kisangani in May 2009 on its way to Butembo and then Goma on behalf of Mr. Lubamba(annex 77).
As with the diamond sector, the Liberia National Police and the Bureau of Immigration andNaturalization lack the resources to effectively control gold-producing regions, while mining agents and mineral inspectors of the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy remain extremely vulnerable to corruption.
During its field visit to the island of Idjwi on LakeKivu in October, local mining agents and officers from the migration and intelligence agencies told the Group that smugglers take tungsten from the Kamole mine to Goma and Gisenyi, Rwanda(see S/2013/433, para. 190).
Liberia should continue, with the assistance of partners, to build capacity and train officials whose work relates to Kimberley Process implementation(including Government Diamond Office staff,mineral inspectors and mining agents and customs, police, immigration, banking and finance officials).
The Group also learned from traders that Cooperamma works closely with some mining agents to understate actual production and export levels from the Rubaya mines in official reports.
This could be the result of various factors, including the productivity of different mining areas, the volume of legitimate versus illicit mining and trading activities, the accessibility of offices,the operational status of the offices and perhaps their issuance of licences and cooperation with mining agents.
Coordination between theBureau of Immigration and Naturalization, the Liberian National Police, mining agents from the Bureau of Mines, and the regional diamond offices is poor, particularly with regard to information-sharing and intelligence-gathering.
With the assistance of UNMIL and other international partners, including the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) and the United States Agency for International Development(USAID), the Ministry has trained,equipped and deployed 65 mineral inspectors and 46 mining agents to the interior of the country, to institute Kimberley Process certification scheme procedures.
In the course of the mandate, the Group interviewed Government mining agents, small-scale gold traders and other businessmen in Bukavu, who confirmed that Mr. Mutoka purchases gold from Mange as well as from another businessman, Evariste Shamamba, who runs a gold exporting company Etablissement Namukaya.
Officials were able to brief the Panel on the success ofrecent workshops for the training of regional coordinators, mining agents and mineral inspectors in compliance with the requirements of the 8 September 2004 act amending the new minerals and mining law, part 1, title 23, by adding thereto a new chapter 40 providing for controls on export, import and transit of rough diamonds.
The Group received numerous testimonies from Government mining agents and local businessmen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that a Bukavu-based trader, known as“Mange”, who at the time of writing was not officially licensed to purchase gold by the Government, purchases large amounts of gold from FDLR-held areas in Mwenga, Itombwe, Shabunda and Walungu territories and subsequently supplies it to Mr. Mutoka.
Police officers residing in Henry Town informed the Panel that the Mining Agent had never approached them for assistance to make an arrest.
On 31 March 2012, the Panel observed a government mining agent taking bribes in Dehkotee and Dark Forest mining camps, both of which are in Grand Gedeh County.
In Henry Town, Gbarpolu County, the Panel met a Mining Agent who had his own" investigator", but the investigator admitted to the Panel that he was not a government employee.
For example, the Assistant Superintendent for Development of Lofa County andUNMIL staff informed the Panel in early October 2010 that the local Mining Agent had written a letter to the Superintendent stating that security agency staff should not visit the local gold mining areas in his absence.