Sebastiao Salgado Gold

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What is it about a dull yellow metal that drives men to abandon their homes, sell their belongings and cross a continent in order to risk life, limbs and sanity for a dream?? ? Sebasti?o Salgado

When Sebasti?o Salgado was finally authorized to visit Serra Pelada in September 1986, having been blocked for six years by Brazil?s military authorities, he was ill-prepared to take in the extraordinary spectacle that awaited him on this remote hilltop on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. Before him opened a vast hole, some 200 meters wide and deep, teeming with tens of thousands of barely-clothed men. Half of them carried sacks weighing up to 40 kilograms up wooden ladders