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Mountains of Gold
The Rosia Montana mine is one of the oldest mines in the world, but now it threatens to destroy the ancient village it long ago built.
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Issue: Winter 2012 / Volume 88/1
Published: June 24, 2012
Dimiter Kenarov is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and a contributing editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has appeared in Esquire, Outside, The Nation, The International Herald Tribune, and Boston Review, and was recently anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing series.
Nadia Shira Cohen is a foreign photography correspondent for the New York Times as well as a frequent contributor to National Geographic Brazil and Harper’s.