Good morning!

While you're waiting for our quiz, help yourself to some gilbakka curry. Get your own roti.

oh man! Now I'm hungry

Is that mango in it?  I'm making that tonight. 

Who was the first foreigner to establish a mine in Guyana? What mineral was targeted, and where?

The first contestant to provide three correct answers will be the winner.

Green mango, of course!

(b)Gold

(c)Essequibo

D'amil (Portuguese) 1860's

Gold

Essequibo

(1) Alcoa USA

(2) Bauxite

(3) Linden

Aha I am going to get some roti for that curry  

You cook the roti..sakay or paratha.

Not yet, young lady, dig deeper.

You're way off mark. Try again.

No. Definitely not. Try again.

Omai Gold Mine

Gold

Omai River

No. Long time before Omai. Keep on mining.

British Consolidated Mining Company

Gold

Mahdia

another try

1857 Venezuelans came to Upata to mine gold (Upata was still within British Guiana)

Upata Gold mine (Essequibo)

ALCAN

BAUXITE

1930's

sakay roti..lighting the 'fireside' soon

No.

Remember, mining for facts requires as much persistence as for minerals. Don't rest.

You're prospecting in the wrong place at the wrong time.

You're still far from the jackpot. Not Upata. Leave that place and start travelling from Bartica.

all i can come up with is the Mazaruni area and

granite mining.

Thomas Kitchen in the early 1800's around the Mazaruni area for gold

(calacoon concession)

I see you took my advice and reached Bartica, but that saskay roti got you thinking about kitchen and that will lead you in the wrong direction. Change course with a time machine.

1720 an expedition from Britain mined for gold in Berbice.

1740 the Dutch West India Company mined for gold in the Cuyuni area.

I am gone...to eat my roti and curry

Angali go for it,i back out.

You came pretty close but yet so far.

Follow me now: The Dutch West India Company was the official owner of Essequibo. The Company had shareholders and directors based in Holland. Those directors wanted to establish a mining industry in Essequibo, so in 1740 the Company sent out a mining engineer named Hildebrandt who began geological surveys in the Mazaruni district.

Then, two years later HILDEBRANDT opened a COPPER mine in the CUYUNI district. The operation could not yield commercial quantities of copper and was abandoned, having gone into history as the first foreign mining operation in Guyana.

HILDEBRANDT was the foreigner.

COPPER was the mineral.

CUYUNI was the place.

 ok Sir Gil thanks for that, i got some right so I'm happy after all the research that was done. I actually saw Hildebrandt name in the article i read but he was with the DWIC so i put the company name down, will learn from this.

I hope everyone has recovered from yesterday's futile search for minerals.

Today should be a good day to go fishing.

In Region 1, especially in the Waini river, there is a broad and thick and delicious fish with human-like teeth. Name that fish.

Pacu

pacu

Pacu has human-like teeth and can be found in most rivers in the Amazon basin. But the one I'm looking for is found only in northern Guyana and the Orinoco delta. Further, it is caught for human consumption, fresh or corned or salted. Try again.

moracutt

Ball, today you caught the ball, and the fish.

Yes, morocut it is.

Congrats!!

Now, for an honesty test. Don't look at a photo or drawing. Trust your conscience.

List the colours of the Guyana flag in order from top to bottom.

green, white, yellow, black, red.

good for you Ball, I have not heard of this fish

Morocut salted fish we used to get that from the interior, we never get the fresh fish too far to transport and still be fresh

I will accept this. You have the colours in order but you should have continued to the bottom: black, yellow, white, green. You have a good patriotic memory.

Congrats!!