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...last January, the weary, ragged prospectors stopped where the Avequí River cuts over the mountain's edge. One of the men tossed a few shovels of river sand on his suruku (three-screened pan). He spun and twisted it, then turned over the screens and looked. The coarse screen held a 4-carat diamond, the middle screen 15 or 20 diamonds ranging from .8 to 3 carats, the fine screen 120 diamonds of about half-carat size. That first haul was worth about...
Other miners soon arrived-a couple, then thirty, then hundreds. By last week 1,300 men and 200 women were placermining on the Avequí, or in the Uriman, as the surrounding area is called. Diving deep to scoop up the sparkling sand, miners-male & female-wore few clothes or none. Diamonds were the one & only concern during the daylight hours...
...government's Seguridad Nacional dropped in, the Italians saw trouble ahead and pulled out-even though the cops immediately began mining for themselves. By last week the government had closed Uriman airport and prepared to force all miners to leave the area, a national mineral reserve. The Avequí rush, not nearly big enough to upset the international market, had almost run its course...
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