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Gold in Suriname
June 2002 by Edgar B. Heylmun, PhD
Suriname is a former Dutch colony on the north coast of South America, with an area of 63,000 square miles and a population of 450,000. Indians inhabited the region when Spaniards first sailed the coast in 1499.
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