Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with ...

In the 1920s, oil drilling helped lift the economy of Venezuela, previously a very poor, largely agrarian country. The country had been plagued with malaria and other tropical dis ...

Venezuela boasts vast mineral wealth, including coal, gold, diamonds and critical minerals such as bauxite, copper and coltan, a metallic ore that can be refined to extract tantalum and niobium.

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The Association of Miners and Processors of Barite (AMAPOB), has urged the Federal Government to compel the International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in the country to use Nigerian barite.