Here were about 100 thousand people.
In 1979, one Brazilian farmer discovered on his land 9-gram nugget of gold. A man hired a geologist to find out whether it makes sense to look for more gold. In the end news about “gold mountains” spread throughout the country. This marked the beginning of a real “gold rush”.
Thousands of miners came here with the hope to get rich quick. It all turned into real madness. People spent the day in these careers, all the while digging deeper and deeper. Naturally, such a situation could not fail to attract the attention of photographers looking to document this phenomenon. We offer you to look at pictures of sebastião Salgado.
Of course, to get rich here was difficult. People dug the ground, pulled on a bags weighing from 30 to 60 kg In total for one bag they were paid 20 cents with a bonus if his bag of gold was discovered. Officially there were produced about 45 tons of gold, however, only 10% of the gold remained in Brazil.
