In the early on 1980s , Brazilian lensman Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada , to a greater extent than or less 430 kilometers S of the oral fissure of the Amazon River , where a notorious gilt rush was inwards progress. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few years before , a youngster had industrial plant life a 6-grams nugget of gilt inwards the banks of a local river , triggering 1 of the biggest race for gilt inwards modern history. Motivated past times the dream of getting rich chop-chop , tens of thousands of miners descended into the site swarming similar ants inwards the vast open-air pit they had carved into the landscape. Salgado took to a greater extent than or less of the nearly haunting pictures of the workers at that topographic point , highlighting the hazardous weather inwards which they worked as well as the sheer madness as well as chaos of the operation.
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