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- Description: This small gold piece weighs about 1/4 grams which cost for P194 ($4). This small amount of money will be divided to four miners and rental of the ball mill. In Camarines Norte, they weigh the gold base on rice grain (palay) and old coins (bahay). Twenty pieces of rice grain is equivalent to 1 old coin and 2 old coins is equlas to one gram. The price per gram is P900-950 ($19). Philippines.
- Credits: Aileen (Philippines) Dimatatac/Majority World
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- Created: Feb 24, 2012
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- Photographer: Aileen Dimatatac
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The Philippine deposits of gold, copper, chromium and nickel are considered as the 5th largest in the world. In 2009, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and...
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- Description: This small gold piece weighs about 1/4 grams which cost for P194 ($4). This small amount of money will be divided to four miners and rental of the ball mill. In Camarines Norte, they weigh the gold base on rice grain (palay) and old coins (bahay). Twenty pieces of rice grain is equivalent to 1 old coin and 2 old coins is equlas to one gram. The price per gram is P900-950 ($19). Philippines.
- Date Created: 2012-02-24 00:00:00
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- Image Description: This small gold piece weighs about 1/4 grams which cost for P194 ($4). This small amount of money will be divided to four miners and rental of the ball mill. In Camarines Norte, they weigh the gold base on rice grain (palay) and old coins (bahay). Twenty
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