Shifting livelihoods : gold mining and subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia /

"People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian...

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Main Author: Tubb, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
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