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Gold rush cast 20141/22/2024 ![]() ![]() Geologists estimate that there are up to 3,000 tonnes of gold in the ground, one of the world’s largest gold deposits. When gold prices soared after the financial crisis in the US in 2008, foreign prospectors invaded Guyana. If anyone finds gold, the rumor spreads quickly with the likelihood of robberies. Muddy gold water spurts from the ground.įour years ago, McCarthy lived in a tent camp in the middle of the deserted jungle and is always armed. A stone has been sucked up into the hose and blasted the plastic tube. The camp will make losses if more gold is not found soon. She stands on a beer crate in the kitchen to reach the big pot where she boils rice with curry. It does not get much when everyone should have his part,” says Rhonda Aulder. Last week we had just upwards of 100 grams. After two years in the gold camp, she has not yet been able to send home much money. The food is cooked by a 34-year-old woman who has eight children and was attracted to the gold district to earn money for her children’s education. They live in makeshift tent camps that they themselves built and ironically dubbed the Purple Heart, after the Medal of Honor awarded in the US to wounded or fallen soldiers. He works every day, from early morning to evening, with 14 other prospectors to get the gold out of a pit they dug by hand. “It’s not easy, but we have come up with much gold here,” says Travis McCarthy 28. As the water rushes through the gutter, it is intended that the gold particles be trapped in a wire plastic mat that nailed to the ground. A tube then sucks up the muddy water in a pipe leading to a homemade panning plant operated by a diesel engine. Travis McCarthy stands up to his waist in mud and water sprays a jet of steam on the walls of the pit. The revenue from the gold disappears abroad and leaves a lacerated rainforest.ĭN (the newspaper) traveled to Port Kaituma. Travis McCarthy stands by his diesel engine. ![]()
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