After rumors of gold, a crowd in the middle of a Colombian town turns the street into a mine
Residents of the city of Zaragoza, Colombia, invaded a downtown sanitation project and turned it into an improvised mine. The reason: a rumor that there would be gold there.
Videos of a crowd digging in the street, carrying sacks of dirt and searching for the precious metal in midwater went viral on social media. (See above in the video)
According to the local press, the rumor began when someone said he had found gold in a job in the municipality’s sewage system on Bolívar Street, a place usually dedicated to trade.
Colombian website Caracol Notícias said within minutes the road was occupied by hundreds of people hoping to find metal.
The newspaper El Colombiano said the city government didn’t have much to do, just wait and see Urban miners leave the place, so that they could finish the public work. The street trade has been closed since Monday (13).
According to local radio station Blu Radio, the condition of Bolívar Street is Unknown since some residents continue to mine the place.
I’m not sure if anyone actually found it gold until the last update of this report.
The Bajo Cauca region of Antioquia, where the city in question is located, is one of the devastated areas of Colombia illegal mining practiceswhich destroyed around 400,000 hectares of native forests and water sources, according to a local press report.
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