Gold Mining

If we were to speak of a Caribbean country worth billions of dollars in untapped gold resources, what country would spring to mind? Probably not the impoverished Caribbean republic of Haiti. After all, centuries of suppression, strife, corruption, and natural disasters have wrecked the economy and deflated most possibilities for tourism, leaving the country known more for its poverty than almost anything else.

Really, one of the only industries still functioning within the country is the production of ; but soon, all of that could change.

Early in January of 2015, Haitian government officials met both with representatives from the World Bank and also with international mining investors in the capital city of Port-au-Prince to discuss how the Haitian government might deal with companies seeking to mine billions of dollars worth of gold out of the mountains in the island’s north.