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The city of Zaruma is sitting on top of one of the richest gold deposits in the world. As illegal miners run rampant underground, the city is collapsing into their sinkholes https://t.co/u17h4M9vuR pic.twitter.com/tSP7GZ8ptQ
— Bloomberg (@business) July 29, 2022
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The village of Zaruma was rocked last December when a sinkhole opened in the middle of the town. Measuring some 90 feet across and 100 feet down, it consumed homes and made scores more uninhabitable https://t.co/P36yKcNwUE pic.twitter.com/d4euT7G5RR
— Bloomberg (@business) July 22, 2022
Since then, there have been so many new tunnels and branches dug under the town that no one—not even the engineer tasked with stabilizing the town—knows where they all go https://t.co/P36yKcNwUE pic.twitter.com/QgOMQvF37c
— Bloomberg (@business) July 22, 2022
Even the residents of Zaruma agree—gold is everything there and many people have a mining connection. The owner of one house consumed by the December sinkhole sells dynamite to miners https://t.co/P36yKcNwUE
— Bloomberg (@business) July 22, 2022
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