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Guatemalans risk lives to "mine" metals from garbage dump

Andrew Topf | November 04, 2011 | 11:07 pm Precious Metals Europe Gold Silver 

It seems that Guatemala's poor will go to extreme lengths for the chance to find valuable precious metals. The Associated Press reports that hundreds of people regularly search for jewelry and scraps of metal among the trash that spills from...

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