French Guiana
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Damon Tabor on illegal gold mining activity in the jungles of French Guiana, where police all the way from France are trying to put an end to the practice.
With the price of gold skyrocketing, Brazilians have been crossing the border into the jungle of French Guiana, where illegal mine operations have been multiplying, in search of a new El Dorado.
An insider's view of late night blackmarket business with French Guiana's garimpeiro gold miners.
Illegal mining of gold contributes to the violent climate of French Guiana, but individuals also suffer due to unhealthy contact with mercury during the extraction process.
After Cayenne, I traveled to a ramshackle little town about 50 miles from the Brazilian border called Regina.
Narayan Mahon reports on illegal gold mining activity in French Guiana.
On a recent Wednesday morning, we drove past central Cayenne's dilapidated houses and ramshackle shops to the gendarmerie HQ at the edge of the city for an interview with Colonel François Müller,...
If people know anything about this place--and not many do--it's because of Steve McQueen. In 1973, McQueen starred in Papillon, a movie based on the book of the same name by Henri Charrière, a...
During a bad recession, the price of gold lifts astonishingly high as the market drops precipitously low—a pecuniary pas de deux with ripple-out effects around the world but in no stranger place...
As jittery investors have sought safe-haven investments in gold during the recession, the metal's price has soared on world markets.