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- ↑ "Guyana". Guyana OKO Mining INC. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ↑ "Foresters in flyover to show mining damage". Stabroek News. 2007-10-04. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ↑ "Excavating in the Rupununi Savannahs". Stabroek News. 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ↑ "Giant sloth replica on display at National Museum". Stabroek News. 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ↑ "Lockdown still in effect at Aranka, Arangoy". Stabroek News. 2020-08-02. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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