Venezuela: the state does not create the record
Every mining function sits under one ministry, the Ministerio del Poder Popular de Desarrollo Minero Ecológico, and the sector it governs is overwhelmingly informal: hand-worked pits inside the Arco Minero del Orinoco and the Imataca reserve, with no concession holder, no employer and no inspection record. Sixteen people died at Bulla Loca in 2024 and the official artefact was a bulldozer and a reforestation photograph. What exists is a competent NGO counting bodies from press clippings and a regional daily that names the pit.
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- The ministry's site (a WordPress with 25 news posts) carries the legal stack: the Ley de Minas of 1999, the gold reserve decree, the strategic-mineral decrees and Decreto 2.248 of 2016 creating the Arco Minero.
- SOS Orinoco's Informe Especial on mining accidents, every four months: 72 deaths in gold-mining accidents 2012 to 2022 in its first issue, a running total since, sourced to press and relatives, by state and pit where known.
- Correo del Caroní, the Ciudad Guayana daily, with a working RSS search: per-incident articles naming the pit (Bulla Loca, El Purgatorio, Bullita de Bosco), the state and the toll, within days.
- A register: SIGDME, the ministry's cadastre system, is a login wall with no public read path; the ministry publishes decrees, not concessions.
- An accident record: INPSASEL, the occupational-safety institute, has a dead domain; the labour ministry answers 403; no body publishes a mining accident.
- An enforcement stream, and an operator to attach one to: the pits that kill are unlicensed, so there is no penalty history to key.
- A tax-id lookup: the RIF would be the join key if a registry surfaced; SENIAT's lookup domain did not resolve.
By SOS Orinoco, from press clippings and relatives, tweeted within days and consolidated every four months, then written up by Correo del Caroní. The counts are floors and their publishers say so ("extraoficial", "al menos"). Bolívar state is covered well; Amazonas thinly, mostly by indigenous organisations, so a series built from Bolívar sources alone would show Amazonas without accidents.
A Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información de Interés Público exists (2021; ranked 121st of 144 by the RTI Rating, 62 of 150 points). Its requesting procedures score 7 of 30: no deadline, format or fee a foreigner could hold anyone to, and other secrecy laws override it. Requests need a cédula and a stated motive. No precedent of mining data released under it was found. This site does not plan on the route.
Whether SOS Orinoco's report PDFs carry a per-incident table (date, pit, toll) rather than prose. If they do, a one-off transcription plus a weekly Correo del Caroní feed would give Venezuela a press-floor page like Bolivia's, with no company pages behind it. Nothing official is expected to appear.
Ministerio del Poder Popular de Desarrollo Minero Ecológico (legal texts, agency profiles, no register). →
SOS Orinoco, Informe Especial on mining accidents (four-monthly). →
Correo del Caroní (RSS search works; names the pit and the state). →
Each source was opened on 15 September 2026 from a US egress; a host that answered differently that day is described as it answered.