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All that Glitters
An illegal mining site in Madre de Dios, Peru / Ernesto Benavides for The Atavist
This is an excerpt from The Atavist
‘s 10th anniversary story, “The Gilded Age” by award-winning reporter Scott Eden. Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami but it also carried ruin.
Scott Eden | The Atavist | January 2021 | 5 minutes (1,352 words)
 
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In 1511, the king of Spain gave his New World explorers an order: Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all costs get gold. Humanely was not how it happened. ....

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