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Workers wash a few gold nuggets that they found during the day in the Kola mine wells in Mali. In the spring of 2008, a gold mine was discovered in a forest a few kilometers from Kola village and, within a matter of weeks, hundreds of people came from Sierra Leone, Senegal, Guinea, The Ivory Coast and elsewhere to set up camp in the surrounding area with the intention of digging for their fortune. Sipa/Newscom/File
This photo taken on Aug. 4 2009, shows an illegal miner displaying rocks containing gold minerals extracted from a small tunnel in Tumpang Pitu, Banyuwangi regency in East Java. Environmental activists have said the July 2009 expiration of the PT Indo Multi Niaga company's two-year mining concession rights located in a nature conservation area had attracted hundreds of illegal gold miners. Indonesia sits in vast resource rich land, where the world's largest gold and copper reserve is mined in Papua province. Aman Rahman/AFP/Newscom
This photo taken on Aug. 4, 2009 shows villagers panning for gold at a pond in Tumpang Pitu, Banyuwangi regency in East Java. Aman Rahman/AFP/Newscom
A member of the 'Kaladian Tigui,' or laborers with small pickaxes, heads to work down the Kola mine wells in Mali. Sipa/Newscom
Gold miners check roof bolts in a South African gold mine in 1997. Graeme Williams/South/Newscom/File
This photo taken on Feb. 23, 2009 shows mining workers standing on a muddy cliff as they work at a gold mine in Chudja, near Bunia, in northeastern Congo. Eighteen prospectors were killed overnight on August 19-20, 2008 in a diamond mine in central Democratic Republic of Congo, union officials said. Celestin Kubela, the head of the local mining authority in Kasai province, said that the victims, who were all illlegal miners, are thought to have touched a power cable deep underground. Lionel Healing/AFP/Newscom
Workers rinse rocks looking for gold near the Kola mine wells in Mali. Sipa/Newscom
Rescuers attempt to free five mine workers trapped in the flooded Pingfang Gold Mine in Beipiao, in northeastern China's Liaoning Province on May 4, 2009. Li Gang/Newscom/File
Workers show a few gold nuggets that they found during the day in the Kola mine wells in Mali. Sipa/Newscom/File
A refinery worker in Istanbul, Turkey pushes a cart full of gold flakes melted from once privately-owned ingots, on Feb. 10, 2009. After the Turkish Lira gained in value against the gold price, Turkish people began selling their homestocked gold. Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Newscom/File
A smelter pours a bar of gold at Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan on May 24, 2008. The intense gold production process includes blasting 50 different 50kg explosives in ore-laden rock to pour the day's yield - two gold bars worth a total of around $1.8m. Zuma/Newscom/File
Smelter Abe Sylapheth pours molten gold into an ingot form after melting down castoff 14-carat gold earrings, chains, and other items at Abington Reldan Metals LLC in Philadelphia, in 2007. Clem Murray/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT/Newscom/File
A shovel with gold granules is pictured at the Austrian Gold and Silver Separating Plant 'Oegussa' in Vienna, in this Feb. 28 file photo. Spot gold hit a record high of $1,488.50 an ounce on April 18, on concern about rising inflation. Lisi Niesner/Reuters
A man shapes a gold ring at a workshop in Karachi, Pakistan, on April 21. India gold recovered from its previous session's losses on to hit another record high nearing 22,000 rupees ($495) following firm overseas markets, triggering purchases from physical traders to stock for festivals. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
A gold ingot is engraved at the Krastsvetmet plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on Nov. 16, 2009. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
An employee of a bullion house shows gold bars in Mumbai on Dec. 3, 2009. Gold struck another peak of new high of $1,224.65 an ounce because of its investor appeal as a safe asset. Arko Datta/Reuters
A worker arranges gold bars in a gold store in Shenyang, in northeast China's Liaoning province, on Dec. 7, 2009. AP
A Bank of Taiwan employee poses with gold plates inside a branch outlet in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 21. Gold rallied above $1,500 an ounce for the first time on April 20, extending the week's record run as investors hedged growing inflation risks and bought into a broad commodities rally as the dollar slumped. Nicky Loh/Reuters
Gold turtles and toads are displayed at a jewelery shop in Seoul, South Korea, on April 21. Gold prices hit record highs for a fifth session and silver rallied to its strongest since 1980 as the dollar slid to a three-year low against a basket of major currencies and oil prices rallied. Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
In Pictures: What happened to the green revolution in Iran?
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
In Pictures: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/20
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
In Pictures: The Israeli separation barrier: A West Bank wall
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Earthquake gold: Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience.
Earthquakes have the Midas touch, a new study claims.
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