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Pakaraima

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Pakaraima 

a mountain range in the central Guyana Highlands, on Brazil’s border with Venezuela and Guyana. Elevations reach 2,772 m at Mount Roraima. Composed primarily of sandstones deposited over ancient metamorphic rocks, the Pakaraima Mountains have steep slopes and plateau-like peaks that are almost devoid of vegetation.



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A South African company, Migrate Mining Limited (MML), has been given permission for a reconnaissance survey of minerals covering eight million acres of land in the Pakaraima Plateau in Guyana, called the Roraima Formation, which embraces the Venezuela border, reports CANA (July 17, 1999): Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, who holds the portfolio of mining, signed three-year contract with MML.
 
 
 
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