Gold may out-shine diamonds in Sierra Leone

Chief Aiah Lebbie weighs a small but heavy pile of metallic flakes glistening in the palm of his hand. It is gold, found by small-scale or artisanal diamond miners in the tailings of a diamond gravel pit in Lebbie’s Nimikor chiefdom, in Sierra Leone’s eastern province. Unaware of soaring gold prices on international markets and more concerned with looking for diamonds, miners sell these... 

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