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Mongolia's 'ninja' miners help sate China's lust for gold

Reuters | April 19, 2012 | 9:18 am Precious Metals Asia China Europe Gold 

For thousands of dirt-poor Mongolian herders, the dwindling legal gold supplies and a rise in black market demand from China is reason enough to ransack old and abandoned mines in search for gold.

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