Posted by admin | Posted in Peru | Posted on 17-12-2010
Tags: environment, gold, mining, news, Peru, peru gold rush
Gold fever wreaks havoc in Peruvian Amazon
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Chile Peru and the California Gold Rush of 1849 $30.00 … |
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Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru $0.01 Cocaine: Much is known about the damage done by this drug in the United States; yet how much is actually known of its impact at its source? Though most processed cocaine comes from Colombia, more than half of the coca paste from which the drug is made originates in the vast jungle slopes shared by Bolivia and Peru. People here have chewed coca leaves for centuries, but only over the last twenty ye… |
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James Lick: Eccentric mogul $1.99 The story of James Lick, one of California’s earliest millionaires and an extraordinary eccentric, covers half the globe. Although he was born in Pennsylvania, Lick left America as a young man after the father of the woman he fell in love with, and with whom he had a baby, decided Lick was not a suitable suitor for hid daughter. Lick spent much of his life living in South America, from Argentina a… |
