Word: stike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are two streaks of lightening out there," Gibbs said, "ready to stike at any time...
Allowing for the portable radios and the constant shuttle flights from the nearby town of Marabá, Serra Pelada has become a tropical version of the 19th century Klondike. Around the big stike, which is carved up claim block by claim block, the landscape is a jumble of hovels and open bamboo shelters. Young miners in cutoff shorts and sandals throng the dusty alleyways; grizzled oldtimers wearing floppy straw hats lead their pack mules through the maze. Everywhere, anxious men watch drying handfuls of earth for signs of pay dirt. The ground around them flows with a liquid waste, from...
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