Cambodia - Philippines - Vietnam
Gold washing in Cambodia: A native washing out the gold dust in pans. Everybody searches for Gold in Cambodia: In the indochinese state of Cambodia, in spite of the see-saw political situationsthat have riven the country since the war, the native villagers have seldom lost their taste for gold hunting. In the forest villages, such as Phnom Luong, nearly every man woman and child helps in the constant quest for the rich mineral, The people in the fold areas set out from shackle villages and stake a claim, and dig and dig and wash and wash. If the find a nugget or some gold dust, it is carefully handled and taken to a Chinese deler whoweighs it and pays up on the nail
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13271095
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47040434
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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