Shifting livelihoods : gold mining and subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia / Daniel Tubb.

"People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Chocó, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mini...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Culture, place, and nature.
Main Author: Tubb, Daniel (Author)
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
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Physical Description:xxviii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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