Like the gold rush, there are prospectors looking for money in the ground, and businesses looking for money in the prospectors.
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They claim that legal operations will push out prospectors, but history shows that prospectors will be drawn like mosquitoes to the allure of fresh veins.
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"It is irritating but, thankfully, not yet widespread," said Les Lowe, president of the Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association of Western Australia, which represents prospectors and smaller miners.
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"They aren't supposed to be able to do that," said Les Lowe, president of the Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association of Western Australia, which represents prospectors and smaller miners.
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Just as some prospectors get rich, so do some agents.
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Then, prospectors were chasing the real world currency of crude.
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Fearing for their safety, the prospectors shot back with their firearms.
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Prospectors who study the minors universally agree: It's a great haul.
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The Osage leased the land to prospectors and made a fortune.
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The claims provide prospectors mineral rights but not ownership of the land.
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He told Belém to let the prospectors know that he wasn't interested.
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But soon there were too many prospectors and too little easy gold.
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Working underwater proved too expensive and prospectors discovered new mines on dry land.
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Like other prospectors he did not see the need to use metal detectors.
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Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal also star as prospectors the brothers cross paths with.
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Prospectors offers rare beers from around the world, each served in their specific glassware.
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He staked claim to more property for gold prospecting and built hotels for prospectors.
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"If prospectors come here to explore for gold, we're going to lose," he said.
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Wealthy small-scale prospectors regularly offer residents generous deals for their land, locals say.
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Families in covered wagons and gold prospectors once moved west toward the setting sun.
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His parents are surveyors and prospectors in the oil and gas industry in Siberia.
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Prospectors in Siberia are rushing to extract woolly-mammoth tusks from the melting permafrost.
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Small prospectors can now extract gold from soil rather than just hunting around for nuggets.
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The mine in the small South American country is a frequent target for illegal prospectors.
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In Mr Clavin's formulaic prose, men "wet their whistles" and prospectors are "busy as beavers".
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In the mid-twentieth century, prospectors attempted to liberate petroleum reserves by pulverizing tight rock.
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Founded in 22, Carnation sold condensed milk to prospectors embarking on the Yukon gold rush.
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Wildcat prospectors are trying to draw the dregs out of Myanmar's largest unregulated oil field.
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Bloodborne's "Tomb Prospectors" have spent years navigating the game's enigmatic dungeons, hoping to find something new.
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He didn't make his money off mining, though, but rather catering to the deluge of prospectors.
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It had been used by gold prospectors in the 19th century: history woven seamlessly into nature.
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That makes them the latest in a long line of hopeful prospectors drawn to the region.
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The Tenderloin's roots go back to the 235th century, when prospectors settled here after the Gold Rush.
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The Tomb Prospectors got to work and started mapping Isz dungeons layouts, including enemy and loot positions.
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Conquistadors, missionaries, prospectors, traders and others traversed it, beginning in 1540, usually heading to or from California.
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Mining companies in Congo have struggled to secure their sites from small scale prospectors digging for minerals.
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We eventually traced it back to young Russian prospectors in a completely uninhabited region of Far Eastern Russia.
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These days, prospectors must examine samples of dirt for more minute traces suggestive of a hidden seam below.
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A few prospectors tried their hands at the mica business, but were stymied by the steep mountain geography.
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About 70,000 tourists visit each year: Amateur prospectors try their luck by sifting through pebbles for the opals.
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The company maintains that the independent prospectors who kept working its tunnels were doing so without its permission.
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Their adventurous pursuit is serious enough that the Prospectors even have a uniform that denotes membership to the group.
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Trump moved his restaurant one more time, when a new railroad changed the route prospectors took into the Yukon.
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So Maduro has unleashed freelance prospectors to extract the nation's mineral wealth with virtually no regulation or state investment.
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Genetic prospectors — a term some find offensive, while acknowledging there's not a great alternative — have a range of motivations.
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Those prospectors Friedrich Trump sold swan dinners to mostly didn't strike it rich—they ended up broke or dead.
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The company is scheduled to present on Wednesday in Toronto during the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention.
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Brighter prospects will be in focus at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's conference in Toronto, Sunday through Wednesday.
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The aim of the change, according to the notice, is to increase mineral prospectors' interests in mining on forest land.
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For the non-domain prospectors out there, "sunrise period" refers to an early domain registration opportunity afforded to trademark holders.
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The second historical accident came in 1938, when American prospectors discovered the largest oil reserves on earth in Saudi Arabia.
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But Mro'ô was adamant about preserving the traditional Kayapo way of life, and tried to keep out loggers and prospectors.
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The claims provide prospectors mineral rights, with no requirement to pay the government royalties, but not ownership of the land.
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The same mosquitoes then transmit the virus to humans who make incursions into jungles, like gold prospectors, hunters or loggers.
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Then Mro'ô's successor began allowing prospectors to work the surrounding land in exchange for ten per cent of their findings.
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Like eager prospectors in a B western, many investors believe there's gold in them hills — and that's where they're heading.
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Today's prospectors are eager to exploit the area's lithium deposits, but Bolivia's democratic government is less welcoming than the imperial one.
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Unlike old-fashioned prospectors of yore, though, today's data scientists find themselves in one of the IT world's fastest-growing industries.
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In 2000 prospectors found a giant deposit known as the Mesozoic Chiapas-Tabasco oilfield, prompting a rush to develop the state.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford were both present at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada event.
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Listening to Sibyl practicing monologues, Townes telling shaggy-dog anecdotes or Blaze punning and pontificating is like watching prospectors panning gold.
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It also shows that for prospectors seeking pharmaceutical advances in nature, there are more drugs to be found in unexpected places.
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Last year, Brazil's military abandoned two river outposts guarding the country's Yanomami reserve, which had been established to keep out prospectors.
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Death Valley got its name in 1849 when prospectors heading to the gold fields got lost and stumbled into the harsh desert.
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The wealthy landowners and oil prospectors in Shelby figured that a heavyweight title fight was a magnificent way to get national attention.
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Frank Powell, a guide at the company, said California's 120-mile Mother Lode continues to provide a livelihood for many lone prospectors.
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This arrangement generated riches for the Congolese elite, and vastly more for the prospectors, but offered little to the poverty-ravaged population.
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Some of the prospectors also venture out to hunt bushmeat, and it was such a hunting party that came upon the flecheiros.
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Traffic along the Camino peaked in the mid-16113th century, as prospectors were lured across it to the Gold Rush in California.
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For would-be deep space prospectors, there's even an online database ranking over 600,000 asteroids by the potential value of their minerals.
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By 1867, word of the silver at Cerro Gordo spread, "bringing flocks of new prospectors," the website for the mining town says.
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Thanks to their plentiful land and cheap power, rural Montana, Washington, and Wyoming are now home to a new crop of cryptocurrency prospectors.
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In the pit, the prospectors cut the generator in order to take a water break: the heat was ferocious, and they were parched.
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A potbellied man in his late fifties, he was the president of the local Association of Prospectors, an advocacy group for gold miners.
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For President Bolsonaro, gold prospectors serve as a symbol of the country's pioneer spirit—much as West Virginia coal miners do for Trump.
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The article discussed how the Warden's Court denied licenses to prospectors to search for minerals on land where Forrest holds a pastoral lease.
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As melting ice opens eastern Greenland to petroleum prospectors and cruises, scientists are rushing to study the noises made by this remote population.
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Competing with thousands of other wildcat prospectors here, he will be lucky to collect a barrel a day, earning a little over $50.
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Legend has it that the sport was born in the Gold Rush, when prospectors ran alongside their pack animals to register their claims.
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They were garimpeiros , gold prospectors, who were working inside the Kayapo reserve—a twenty-six-million-acre Amazonian wilderness, demarcated for indigenous people.
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Gold mining is illegal there, but the prospectors were accompanied by a Kayapo man, so Belém assumed that some arrangement had been made.
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I explored the outpost on foot, wandering the ruins and talking to gold prospectors, farmers and descendants of plantation workers who live here.
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"Those would be some of the best pounds on the planet," he said in Toronto during the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention.
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"It was my job to make sure the prospectors weren't bringing in guns or drugs, or stealing gold on their way out," Belém explained.
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In 1950, a teenage Felipe was recruited by a group of prospectors from Veracruz who hoped to unearth a long-lost stash of gold.
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In riverside communities, small boats are the primary means of transportation; prospectors haul away ore on barges, or in trucks where there are roads.
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I saw black bears crossing the Yukon highway, which roughly follows the route taken by prospectors during the Gold Rush that started in 1896.
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Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal also star as prospectors named Morris and Warm, with whom the Sisters brothers cross paths and form an uneasy alliance.
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They said the group earns some $54 million annually from levies on prospectors and support businesses, direct prospecting and the illegal exporting of mined gold.
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That would mean even fewer opportunities for Mongolia's individual prospectors, who have already been hit hard by the privatization of mines previously open to all.
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We drove to a spot on the prospectors' road, and he led me into the forest where a tangled patch of yucca and bananas grew.
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One survivor later fashioned a gun sight from a hunk of silver; this engendered the legend of the Gunsight Lode, which prospectors pursued for decades.
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I learned of the significance of this land to the Maori people and of the generations of colonial prospectors that showed up to mine it.
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Along the river were small camps of prospectors, who had set up diesel-powered pumps and wooden sluices and were noisily gouging away the riverbanks.
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Madre de Dios had reserves worth billions of dollars, he added, and as prospectors poured in they had no choice but to break the law.
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The ray of optimism comes as the world's mining sector prepares for its largest annual gathering, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto.
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As Chalice Dungeons can be shared online with other people through specialized codes, Prospectors often explore areas together with the aim of finding new dungeon configurations.
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In an earlier age, this resulted in prospectors bursting through local mining department offices as soon as they opened to lodge paperwork ahead of a rival.
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If prospectors could work legally, he argued, they could institute safeguards in their use of mercury, and could also bulldoze their tailings and plant tree seedlings.
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The Kayapo had appointed men to guarantee that the prospectors paid a fair commission, but there were suspicions that some might be cheating their own communities.
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As melting ice opens east Greenland to petroleum prospectors and cruises, scientists are rushing to study the noises made by a remote population of toothed whales.
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Though many of its elements are familiar to the point of being worn out — saloons and wagon trains, Indians and gold prospectors — the novel is not.
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The prospectors whom Belém met told him that they wanted to build a road linking Turedjam with their mine, about forty miles away through the forest.
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WHEN PROSPECTORS discovered a gargantuan deposit of iron ore in the misty Simandou mountains 17 years ago, many Guineans hoped it would transform their impoverished country.
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Trade was booming, land speculators were making huge amounts of money and prospectors were still drawn to the colony by the lure of the 1850s gold rushes.
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Years later, after much of the world has moved on and From Software is making new games, the Prospectors still go spelunking within Bloodborne with surprising regularity.
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In the future, it would be best to put a system in place to understand the ecology of any area where prospectors drill for oil, Andersen said.
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For Deep Sea Mining Watch, the team developed new parameters to sift for signs of ocean prospectors in a dozen regions across Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.
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Hundreds of prospectors flooded into the hillsides of what is today the western edge of the state, many of them coming from the gold mines of California.
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The earliest prospectors of the California gold rush ventured into the Sierra foothills as solo travelers, sloshing through streams in search of nuggets dislodged by the current.
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Although Chinese firms such as Baidu and Alibaba are also investing in AI, and deploying it in their home market, the most visible prospectors are Western tech firms.
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Holness announced the creation of the 74,726-hectare Cockpit Country Protected Area last month, ruling out mining even though prospectors had already received licenses to look for bauxite.
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But 15 months after American prospectors began swarming Havana, filling hotels and hiring consultants, only a handful have inked deals to do business with the once-forbidden island.
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The hangings, shootings, scalpings and other grim ends awaiting the hapless cowboys, prospectors and wagon-train pioneers in this anthology of western tales are incidents of mortal slapstick.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, some HQ2 prospectors are using "proprietary software" that will allow them to select promising properties to attempt to purchase within just five minutes.
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Consequently, prospectors and traders are subject to what they perceive as unfair confiscations by state officials, which happens frequently, according to the AFP, despite collectors having the required permits.
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Prospectors claim that Bloodborne has a set number of Chalice dungeons with specific layouts that it can pull from, and the game only selects these predetermined dungeons at random.
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While early prospectors worked manually with pans and other tools, as more men arrived, miners took to diverting entire rivers and using hydraulic jets to speed up their excavations.
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Even the mud looks like preindustrial, frontier mud, and the motley, multicultural assortment of traders, trappers and prospectors who find themselves spattered by it seem equally untouched by modernity.
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Mr. Banawol, who was living at the mine with his wife and two small children, was the leader of a group of small-scale prospectors who worked the mine.
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In July, prospectors in another reserve killed an indigenous man in his own village; Bolsonaro's environment minister, contesting the reports, suggested that the victim had got drunk and drowned.
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Whether loss-wary investors will finally focus on EV minerals will be a key question at this week's annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto.
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"Those are decisions to be made specifically by the company," Williams said in an interview through an interpreter in Toronto during the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention.
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During the California gold rush in the late 19th century, some of the most successful prospectors were not the miners actually hunting for gold, but the businessmen selling mining tools.
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It's easy to forget that oil prospectors and junk-bond traders had their moments of glory too; now Wall Street and the oil industries are resigned to a defensive crouch.
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PROSPECTORS used to taste the stuff to determine its quality, and the oil tapped on February 16th in the Surrey countryside sounded delicious: light, sweet and less than 103% water.
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By late 1896, at age 27, he had become a justice of the peace and opened new restaurants that thrived as prospectors streamed through Seattle to the Klondike and Alaska.
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However, in the past year a record 1,896 gold prospecting licenses were granted by the Western Australia Department of Mines, many for individual prospectors known as "detectorists" trying their luck.
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The thaw has exposed troves of fossils that were once locked in the frozen soil, creating something of a gold rush among prospectors looking to score finds like mammoth ivory.
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The proposed road would also allow prospectors to sneak machinery through the reserve under tree cover, without being spotted from the air by federal police, who periodically raided their operations.
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Fossils of hominins—ancestral humans and their relatives—have been discovered in South Africa since the nineteenth century, when prospectors started blasting for lime, which is used in refining gold.
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One early job of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Yukon region was to keep tabs on the well-being of gold prospectors who might go months without human contact.
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Since a 1992 geological survey spotted one of the world's largest coal reserves in Thar, a scrubby desert in the southern province of Sindh, prospectors have hardly dug up a lump.
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As only part of a reserve is usually recovered (the permeability of rock precluding extraction of the rest), prospectors need to be sure there is enough to make the effort pay.
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Deadly accidents in Myanmar's jade mining areas, where small time prospectors and big firms vie for the precious stone, have underscored the sector's lax safety rules and a lack of accountability.
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Fifty years later, in 1849, tens of thousands of prospectors, known as the 49ers, raced to San Francisco in search of riches, giving name to the San Francisco 49ers football franchise.
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The so-called Old Woman Meteorite was later sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and Mr. Twelker said the case had established a legal framework of sorts for contemporary prospectors.
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It dates back to Gold Rush days, when lucky prospectors were said to have thrown their gear on their donkeys' backs and run to the nearest town to register their claims.
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Most prospectors simply scour the landscape in search of mammoth bones; the use of water jets to dislodge mammoth remains from mounds or the sides of cliffs is prohibited by Yakutia law.
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But while the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 was touched off by a few lucky prospectors and the glint of creek-bed precious metal, this one began on election night, 8503.
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The authorities said the prospectors, some of whom are believed to be children, were working illegally at the mine site, which was shut down in the 1990s amid concerns of environmental degradation.
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Originally announced as a Netflix series, the project ultimately became an anthology film featuring six stories that incorporate such familiar figures as crotchety gold prospectors, seemingly doomed outlaws and mismatched stagecoach passengers.
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Like the other prospectors trying to draw the dregs out of Myanmar's largest unregulated oil field, Mr. Win Myint Oo, 24, came with a dream of striking oil and making it rich.
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In the eighties, Bolsonaro's father, an itinerant dentist, went to work among the tens of thousands of prospectors at the Serra Pelada gold mine, a brutal place that Bolsonaro speaks of nostalgically.
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When we-- go with our prospectors and share with our-- the potential investors our equity story and-- share our data, I think the-- investor community will decide how much is Aramco worth.
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The head of Greece's oil and gas resources management company told Reuters on Monday he was confident firmer crude prices a more stable political climate in Greece would attract prospectors to those sites.
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More than 25 publicly-listed companies and legions of small prospectors are exploring for gold on the western fringe of Australia in an area known as the Pilbara, better regarded for iron ore.
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A group of illegal miners known as zama-zamas ("chancers", for the risks they take) were trapped in an old mineshaft at Langlaagte, the Johannesburg farm where prospectors first discovered gold in 1886.
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The expansion reflects improved geological surveys, and the land open for exploration could increase as further improvements are made, the minister said at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto.
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"All this was heavily mined," Mr. Adams said, surveying a seemingly serene landscape of glacial lakes and Ansel Adams evergreens that had once been torn apart by frenzied prospectors during the Gold Rush.
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Eli and Charlie's pursuit gives the movie urgency and visual appeal as open vistas give way to snowy mountains, the dirty streets of San Francisco and a wilderness that prospectors are rapidly spoiling.
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Over the last several years, the sneaker game has changed from a hobbyist's playground into a $92 million hypebeast market, fueled by prospectors who have created a cottage industry dedicated to reselling footwear.
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The Antiquities Act, which gives presidents the power to create national monuments, was enacted in 1906 under pressure from scholars and scientists who didn't want prospectors and settlers in the southwest destroying archeological artifacts.
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The first reports of monster trees out West, sent by the European trappers and gold prospectors who flocked to California in the mid-663th century, carried a familiar ring of dragons and sea monsters.
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At the edge of Turedjam was a kind of toll booth, where a rope barrier had been strung across the road, so that a Kayapo family could extract a fee from prospectors passing through.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Canada-based Kirkland Lake Gold will list its shares on the Australia bourse on Thursday after investing millions of dollars and joining dozens of other prospectors in a modern-day gold rush.
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"Letting prospectors into the Kayapo reserve is like leaving your children in the protection of a drug gang," Barbara Zimmerman, a Canadian ecologist who has worked with the Kayapo for three decades, told me.
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During Brazil's last gold rush, in the 1980s, thousands of Yanomami people lost their land — and their lives — to the government-sponsored invasion of "garimpeiros" (prospectors) who exposed tribes to disease, alcohol, drugs and prostitution.
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Aramco, whose roots date back to the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia in the 1930s by American prospectors, is a rare case of an old-line company that tops technology giants in market value.
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Historically industrial, all kinds of people—gold rush prospectors, immigrant farmhands and merchant mariners, leather daddies, nightclub impresarios, collective-living Burners, artists, hackers, and the homeless—have, at one time or another, called the district home.
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Pursuing gold has never been easy, whether at the Olympics or in the Yukon Territory of Canada, where three prospectors found a nugget at the juncture of a creek and a river 120 years ago today.
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Campaigners hope the ban will hike pressure on larger mining companies to use more expensive technology to control damage, and to take responsibility for the degradation caused by the small-scale prospectors they often buy up.
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"While the Public Health investigation is ongoing, it is known that on March 2 and 3, this individual attended the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada 2020 convention," said the press release from Sudbury & Districts Public Health.
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But for thousands of years this neck of the northern Piedmont region, what some call Italy's Klondike, has attracted prospectors seeking gold flowing down the Elvo River from deposits left eons ago by receding Alpine glaciers.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Actors Gillian Anderson and Mark Rylance on Thursday threw their celebrity clout behind a drive to help protect tribes with no contact to the outside world from logging prospectors eyeing their land.
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But there's a bigger game at play here: The precious minerals and metals in asteroids may be worth billions of dollars to galactic prospectors, and NASA's mission is paving the way for an outer-space gold rush.
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"Though many of its elements are familiar to the point of being worn out — saloons and wagon trains, Indians and gold prospectors — the novel is not," Lawrence Downes wrote in a profile of Díaz for the Times.
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Mongolia's proximity to neighbouring China, the world's biggest copper consumer, has attracted interest from international prospectors as an anticipated leap in electric vehicle demand and renewable energy would increase consumption of a commodity that already has multiple uses.
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"It's not 1901 anymore," said Darwin Green, vice president of exploration at Constantine, adding that prospectors are only exploring whether they can dig copper, zinc, gold, and silver from an area between the preserve and the Canadian border.
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"When people realize the price is going to go up, it's going to go up faster than you and I can dream about," Ashraf said in an interview during the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto.
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Located just one mile from the entrance of Denali Park in the Old Northern Lights Theater, Prospectors Historic Pizzeria and Alehouse provides a glimpse into Alaska's past with its collection of old Alaskan photos, artifacts and maps throughout.
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"In this apocalyptic land everybody — the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle — is a gentleman of color," reads a 1937 review of the movie in Time magazine.
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There's a lot of it around and it's not just in Cornwall that lithium prospectors are going back down disused mines to find a mineral that had little mainstream commercial use until the invention of the lithium-ion battery.
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DAKAR/LIMA (Reuters) - The deaths of 43 illegal miners at a Glencore facility in Congo last week highlighted a growing challenge for mining companies struggling to secure sites from small-scale prospectors digging for cobalt, copper and other minerals.
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DONALD TRUMP'S grandfather, Fred, got his start in the hotel industry at the turn of the 20th century supplying rooms, food, booze and female company to prospectors flocking to north-western Canada in the so-called Klondike gold rush.
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From there, space prospectors plan to move on to asteroids with high iron content and others that contain rare metals—the raw materials that will allow us to set up not just gas stations, but entire communities in space.
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In "The Prospectors," two young women struggling to survive in Depression-era Oregon find themselves trapped on a mountain in the company of ghosts, a group of men who are either unaware or unwilling to acknowledge that they're dead.
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You can think of a data scientist as a modern version of one of those old-fashioned prospectors, sifting through a company's mounds of excess dirt and gravel (big data) to find some gems (trends and patterns in said big data).
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs was described back then as a six-episode Western anthology, telling different kinds of stories about settlers, cowboys, bandits, and prospectors, given the Coens' usual layering of pitch-black humor, philosophical musing, and cockeyed poetry.
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The high-flying prospectors in question are a group led by Cristian Rossi, an expert on remote sensing, which has been organised under the auspices of the curiously named Satellite Applications Catapult, an innovation centre backed by the British government.
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DAKAR/LIMA, June 30 (Reuters) - The deaths of 13 illegal miners at a Glencore facility in Congo last week highlighted a growing challenge for mining companies struggling to secure sites from small-scale prospectors digging for cobalt, copper and other minerals.
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That digger's dream harder and harder in the internet era—when eagle-eyed prospectors snap up the best shit the moment it hits recently arrived bins only to throw it straight to Discogs to do the ol' wax into gold alchemy.
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Peter Barry, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford, was excited when he was invited to join prospectors from resource extraction company Helium One in 2015 to investigate seeping helium bubbling up in the southwest of the African country.
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But as the ocean warms, ice caps melt and summers get longer in the Arctic, the once inaccessible habitat of east Greenland narwhals is opening up to scientists — as well as cruise ships and prospectors interested in minerals or offshore drilling.
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Another catastrophic proposal would open all land within Brazil's protected border zone — a territory the size of Alaska — to foreign mining investment, bringing bulldozers and new waves of prospectors to the refuge of some of the world's last isolated tribes.
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Mongolian finance ministry officials could not be reached for comment on the settlement while in Toronto for the annual Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada conference, where the Mineral Resources Authority said it will pitch mining and infrastructure projects and auction off exploration licenses.
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At Casa do Garimpeiro, two young women buy gold dust from prospectors and sell them gold jewelry, to give to their wives and girlfriends; outside is a giant glass-topped table, fashioned out of the gold-painted metal treads of an excavator.
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It's a divisive issue in Marble Bar, whose population is largely made up of civil servants, teachers, retirees and prospectors drawn to town by the promise of gold, not all of whom accept the science that the earth, and their town, are warming.
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And yes, it all connects: According to legend, French prospectors were the first to bring the chewy, tangy sourdough recipe to northern California during the gold rush, and it was first popularized in San Francisco's Boudin Bakery in -- you guessed it -- 1849.
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The company expects the agreement, which it reached in September 2017 to resolve issues including environmental and profit sharing disputes, to close by June, Centerra CEO Scott Perry said on the sidelines of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada mining conference in Toronto.
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"The company is very important for Brazil, for the economy of many states in Brazil, and we consider them to have an important role in our development," Albuquerque said on the sidelines of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada mining conference in Toronto.
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"The most important immediate change is that the lands will once again be available for mining prospectors to get out on federal public lands and stake mining claims," said Heidi McIntosh, an attorney with Earthjustice, which opposes the rollbacks and is suing to reverse them.
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SYDNEY Feb 27 (Reuters) - In July 2017, Reuters withdrew a May 18 article headlined "Australian billionaire uses indigenous land laws to keep prospectors off farm" that referred to Andrew Forrest, founder and chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, the world's fourth biggest iron ore miner.
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His brother, a heavy drinker known as Juan Piranha, quickly made a deal with the prospectors, and before long their road was cut—a track through the forest wide enough for excavators capable of moving hundreds of tons of rock and earth a day.
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Fossil fuel prospectors have also been looking to exploit reserves in riskier and pricier locations, such as the Arctic's Beaufort Sea where hazardous ocean conditions make it nearly impossible to safely drill for oil, but even there the impact of oil prices is being negatively felt.
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While this dot on the map has seen prospectors, prostitutes, miners and bootleggers come and go, it serves as a lesson on the dangers of betting it all on resource extraction, a capricious industry that has left the region scarred by environmental contamination and economic collapse.
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I moved to Yellowknife in 2005 and like most newcomers, I was immediately drawn to the city's Oldtown, where settlers in the form of gold prospectors set up makeshift homes in Weledeh, the traditional territory of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, in the early 1930's.
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Investors looking to cash in on this boom should look to miners like Pilbara and others but need to keep in mind previous booms in opaquely-traded metals such as rare earths and uranium that quickly crashed when demand failed to materialize and prospectors ran out of money.
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No mania in the bizarre history of Death Valley—the prospectors and swindlers of the late nineteenth century; the playboy adventurers and car racers of the Jazz Age; the psychedelic goings on in the sixties and seventies, including a residency by the Manson family—matched the Superbloom invasion.
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In short, the tiny power plant is crucial to an ambitious attempt not only to protect Virunga — Africa's oldest national park — from threats including armed rebels, deforestation and oil prospectors, but to jump-start the local economy and potentially help stabilize one of the world's worst conflict zones.
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Lithium, a highly-sought after metal used to make electric vehicle batteries, remains a priority for not only Codelco, but also for the country's government under President Sebastian Pinera, Mining Minister Baldo Prokurica said in an interview on the sidelines of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto.
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These deals, their expected outcomes and the impact on the broader gold mining industry are expected to dominate the conversation at the annual conference of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, when tens of thousands of participants from around the world - from executives to investors to regulators - descend on Toronto.
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Now he is chasing a new treasure, one fueled by a metal powerful enough to propel electric cars to speeds of 20.75 km (203 miles) per hour: lithium His company, Pilbara Minerals, plans to be mining the silvery-white metal by 220, putting it ahead of dozens of other Australian prospectors.
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Small mines in China, which previously ramped up output to meet demand, are unable to renew permits under new environmental policies and help meet demand growing at a rate of 2 to 2.5 percent annually, Martins said in an interview at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto.
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After-hours plans at the March 28.4-220 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto range from cocktails for 22018 at the Pinnacle Room, a 43-floor hotel venue with 360-degree city views, to a night at Rebel, a waterfront venue more familiar with rock stars than rock miners.
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The prospectors had unearthed what would come to be called the Patricia Emerald: a dazzling 12-sided crystal roughly the size of a soup can, with a weight of 73 carats — more than a quarter of a pound — and a verdant color so pure and vivid you'd swear the stone was photosynthesizing.
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The actor, author and playwright, who died last Thursday at 73 of complications from ALS, opened up to his friend Johnny Dark in a series of letters — starting in 683 and ending in 2011 — published by the University of Texas in 2013 in a book titled Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark.
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Yet Story entered the season ranked modestly within the (admittedly loaded) Rockies system by the industry's most respected prospectors: Baseball America placed him eighth; Baseball Prospectus had him 10th; and Keith Law represented the relative low man, inserting him at 11 (it's worth noting Law wrote he was "probably too good to be just someone's utility infielder").
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Given that most of the state's—and the country's—suburban projects have historically been the product of racial animus, it's hard to imagine that the Gladesmen and prospectors of the unincorporated community of Homestead excitedly watched the coming-together of a neighborhood advertised in the area's local paper with a picture of a turbaned man hovering above the swamp.
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The articles gathered here, all previously published in Brazilian newspapers or magazines, explore the lives of everyday people: a father burying his premature son in a cemetery of shallow paupers' graves, gold prospectors trying their luck in the jungle, women saving up for their sons' coffins in a favela, knowing the boys won't make it much past 20.
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Still to come is a deal with President Suharto, of Indonesia, and his playboy son, plus a fur-patting encounter with a tiger, not to mention Kenny's acceptance of the Golden Pickaxe from the Gold Prospectors Association of America, before a late twist—familiar to anybody who followed the real Bre-X scandal—yanks the rug from under our feet.
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