Prospectors, barons and suits

摘要

AT THE bottom of a muddy basin sur-rounded by verdant mountains, Dora Alicia Hernandez combs through black sludge and rock in the faint hope of finding an emerald valuable enough to lift her out of poverty. "All we need is one shiny stone," she says, as rainclouds smother the mountains overhead. "Then we can get out ofhere."