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Ndjuka Maroon men unloading boat in front of a migrant Chinese-run trading post on the Marowijne riverfront in the gold boomtown of Bensdorp, Suriname. Several groups of merchants from the Peoples Republic of China have opened jungle trading posts to supply their Brazilian gold mining ?garimpeiros? clientele. The "garimpieros" pay for supplies with nearly pure gold weighed out by the gram for payment. One gram is valued at Euro 40.