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A small crew of handymen toils at repairing a sluice box. There is no water being rushed through the sluice, no minerals being extracted. “There are thousands of tonnes of coltan,” says Tchomba, his eyes sweeping the senator's mining concessions,

Ted scorns the latest generation of gold-diggers, with their new-fangled dredgers, sluice-boxes and electronic detectors. ''Should report them,'' he says, pointing out that fossicking is free, use of machinery requires a ''special ticket''.

There would have been no deal if the estimated 170 descendants of the Chandler family, which controlled Times Mirror, hadn't been so eager to sluice profits and capital out of the company. O'Shea reports that Times Mirror paid out $2.1 billion in

And my hike up the bowl, in an area to the right known as The Sluice, went as planned. But as everyone knows, you can't steer an inner tube. And the higher I got, the more it became obvious that to avoid crashing into the rocks at the right edge of the

The Macusani plateau is rich in gold and uranium, and the highway has helped attract investment for mining companies. A joint venture known as Conirsa built the road here, employing as many as 7000 workers and training 170 women to be heavy machinery