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GOLD IN ZARAGOZA: THE BANKS OF THE DAGUA RIVER ARE YIELDING GOLD NOT JUST DEAD BODIES

http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/notas/Julio262009/sarago.html
There are six thousand people arriving daily to this remote spot on the Dagua river in the department of Valle del Cauca. The place looks like Moon surface, filed with craters dug into the loose soil as the miners have been following their instinct and just dug into anywhere in the banks of the river.

The story says that an obstinate fisherman who had kept on fishing in the muddy brown river in hopes of catching some bocachicos and sabalos but more used to catching mutilated bodies floating downriver from the mountains where the guerrilla and the paracos throw their gruesome catch in the waters of the river found gold.

The place has turned into a Kafkan nightmare: at least one reported death already as a young, inexperienced miner thought there was gold in the bottom of a hole he had dug...he went deeper and deeper and the walls of the hole collapsed on him burying him in the mud. Vultures and prostitutes are following the miners, each waiting for their share, of gold and human flesh.
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"Al cierre de esta edición, el Banco de la República tenía tasado el gramo de oro en $58.147. Mientras tanto, en Zaragoza, los compradores se lo pagaban a los mineros a $44.500."

By Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) on Jul 26, 2009, 08:14 in Friendly Talkzone.

Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Jul 26, 2009, 08:23:

http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/index.html

Check out the slide show on the front page.

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

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Sam Salmon says on Jul 26, 2009, 09:42:

Mining is a dirty dirty business.

' a la orden!'

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