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Jewels - Minerals - Mining - Rocks

Apr. 18 Even The Children Help With Gold Mining In Cambodia: A small girl pounds army at the gold-bearing rock which her parents bring back to the village. Everybody Searches For Gold In Cambodia: In the Indochinese state of Cambodia, in spite of the see-saw political situations that 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 gold areas set out from am-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 dealer whowsighs it and pays up on the nail

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13224911
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46974522
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Bring Cambodia Carefully Claim Constant Dealer Everybody Gold-bearing Handled Helps Indochinese Luong Mineral Nail Nearly Nugget Phnom Pounds Quest Searches See-saw Seldom Situations Spite Stake Taste Villagers Villages Wash


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