Colombia: Blood Gold: From Conflict Zones in Colombia to Jewelry Stores in the US

Nov 18, 2015 | James Bargent and Michael Norby, Al Jazeera
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In the department of Cauca in southern Colombia, newly constructed huts and fresh tracks made by heavy machinery indicate an old, abandoned mine is seeing new life. As many as 30 workers were killed here in a landslide in the summer of 2014 and most of their bodies still lie under tons of fallen rock and mud. Now, mining operations are about to begin again.