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Evening descents upon a migrant Chinese man on the front stoop of his store in the Amazonian gold boomtown of Bensdorp deep in the interior of Suriname. Almost pure gold is the preferred currency in Bensdorp where customers' gold is weighed out on scales for payment. So called, "New Chinese" migrants from Fujian Province in southern China have established several trading posts in Bensdorp, a gold mining boomtown, to sell Brazilian gold miners, or ?garimpeiros?, supplies, food and fuel. Suriname.
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James Whitlow Delano
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Evening descents upon a migrant Chinese man on the front stoop of his store in the Amazonian gold boomtown of Bensdorp deep in the interior of Suriname. Almost pure gold is the preferred currency in Bensdorp where customers' gold is weighed out on scales for payment. So called, "New Chinese" migrants from Fujian Province in southern China have established several trading posts in Bensdorp, a gold mining boomtown, to sell Brazilian gold miners, or ?garimpeiros?, supplies, food and fuel. Suriname.