MOZAMBIQUE: Buried treasure, hidden risks

MARÁVIA Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (IRIN) - Gidion Mutata, 37, rolls up his shirt sleeves, picks up his tools and makes his barefoot way to his gold claim in the mining region of Marávia in Mozambique's northwestern Tete province. Most afternoons are spent trying to sell what he finds, but his daily routine is usually not complete without alcohol and sex workers, who have set up shop near the camp to sell food, fruit and sex to the miners. Mutata comes from Zumbo, on the Zambian border, and...