<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/72514102-cd92-4974-913b-9ef88ef6d3b1/ED1BBF45-2EE0-4FFF-92A3-5D5818A52E4A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text?source=email_inside_20090115&email=inside" href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text?source=email_inside_20090115&email=inside" style="font-size: 11px;">ngm.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text?source=email_inside_20090115&email=inside">Gold</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text?source=email_inside_20090115&email=inside"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ngm.nationalgeographic.com/img/9B697DD0-1158-40DA-B4D5-669F22D335A2" alt="Gold miner in Ghana" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text?source=email_inside_20090115&email=inside">Gold<IMG style="CLEAR: none; BORDER-RIGHT: #ffffff 0px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ffffff 0px solid; DISPLAY: inline; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FLOAT: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px -3px; BORDER-LEFT: #ffffff 0px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ffffff 0px solid; POSITION: relative" src="http://content0.clipmarks.com/images/selection-right.gif" border=0 name=Clipmarks_SelectionBounds clip-index="7"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/01/gold/larmer-text?source=email_inside_20090115&email=inside"> <H2 class=title>The Real Price of Gold</H2> <DIV class=article_credits_author>By Brook Larmer</DIV> <DIV class=article_credits_photographer>Photograph by Randy Olson</DIV> <DIV class=content> <P>Like many of his Inca ancestors, Juan Apaza is possessed by gold. Descending into an icy tunnel 17,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes, the 44-year-old miner stuffs a wad of coca leaves into his mouth to brace himself for the inevitable hunger and fatigue. For 30 days each month Apaza toils, without pay, deep inside this mine dug down under a glacier above the world's highest town, La Rinconada. For 30 days he faces the dangers that have killed many of his fellow miners—explosives, toxic gases, tunnel collapses—to extract the gold that the world demands. </P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ED1BBF45-2EE0-4FFF-92A3-5D5818A52E4A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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