Gold upstream, poison downstream in Philippines fairy mountain
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Fortune favours the brave in this gold rush region of the southern Philippines, but the poison that goes with the new wealth spares no one. Drawing thousands of dreamers and desperadoes into its honeycomb of tunnels for a generation, the logged-out mo…
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