Gold Mining Ivory Coast - 1

This is a ____________________ about a country ____________________ its way to ____________________ . Central Ivory ____________________ is a rich ____________________ landscape . Life here revolves around ____________________ . Most importantly , ____________________ . Ivory Coast has the world ? s largest ____________________ crop . And it starts in ____________________ like this : the village of ____________________ , where John ____________________ is a cocoa ____________________ . Profit margins for cocoa are ____________________ thin . He gets less than ____________________ dollars for a large ____________________ of cocoa . So , he ____________________ his income by dealing in gold . For a long time , ____________________ was a dirty ____________________ to the ____________________ traditional farming lifestyle . But that ? s ____________________ . Ivory Coast is in the middle of a ____________________ rush . The country boasts some of the ____________________ gold mining ____________________ in Africa . It is part of a broader mining ____________________ across the African ____________________ ? propelled by high ____________________ prices , and ____________________ crops . Hundreds of thousands of people are leaving ____________________ behind , to pursue the life in the ____________________ . Five minutes down the road from Mr Kowasaio ? s village , hidden in the ____________________ , former farmers are operating a bustling , ad hoc mining enterprise . Mr Kowasio makes ____________________ as a middle man between the ____________________ , and foreign ____________________ . Word of profitable mining sites ____________________ quickly ; and before long , a few ____________________ evolve into a self - sufficient mining ____________________ . The work is ____________________ and ____________________ , with open ____________________ just steps away from ____________________ quarters . About ____________________ a ____________________ people are though to be ____________________ in artisanal mining in the country , spread out over more than ____________________ sites . If you are ____________________ , tomorrow you may find a ____________________ like that , worth about ____________________ US dollars : and you can pay for a ____________________ , nice ____________________ and a good life . But to do that from cocoa farming would take ____________________ years . They are not ____________________ .