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Wed 01 Jan 2010Paying the real price of gold
As gold becomes increasingly important on world markets, BRIAN O’CONNELLand photographer MICHAEL MAC SWEENEYreport from Burkina Faso on the conditions for those working in the mines
ABOUT 70 kms from the city of Gaoua, in southern Burkina Faso not far from the border with Ghana, at the end of an improvised sandy track, is Tonoir, a goldmine on which thousands of people live and work.
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