As the price of gold continues to soar on international exchanges, one country in particular is benefitting from the spike. The tiny South American country of Suriname has gold aplenty and is experiencing somewhat of an economic boom from gold mining - both legal and illegal.
The trouble is the illegal side of the industry is unregulated and therefore very dangerous for the miners who do it.
To find out more I went to Brokopondo where I watched as a truck laden with gold-riddled ore headed towards a production plant run by a Canadian mining company deep in the rain forest.
In this area IAMGOLD is the only company legally allowed to mine.
But in the middle of the land allotted to them ILLEGAL miners also extract the metal and there's precious little IAMGOLD can do about it!
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