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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The human cost of Columbian Gold

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The scenes Mr. Ferry captured show the range of human activity, from the local miners who descend on a riverbank for their chance to sift through the muck for a few hours each day, to the processes used to separate gold from stone and mud using mercury. He also saw how in other parts of Colombia — for example, on its Pacific Coast — small miners were more sensitive to protecting the environment from damage caused by the mining and refinement process.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/the-human-cost-of-colombian-gold/?_r=0

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