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As the price of gold continues to rise extracting smaller deposits can be very lucrative. In developing countries rules are more lax and there is a boom in gold mining.
As the price of gold continues to rise, mining smaller deposits can be very lucrative. Magazine On Earth writer George Black tells host Steve Curwood that in developing countries like Peru, rules are lax and environmentally destructive gold extraction is booming.