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"This is the life for more than 600 people who are currently residing around two popular mountains of Kare and Ipusa where gold and other minerals are reportedly located in tonnes."

" Community Affairs manager of Indochine which is the current exploration company that is undertaking an advance bankable feasibility study on Mt Kare and Ipusa gold prospect, Joe Pais, said the local people were still carrying out alluvial mining."
"He said that will stop when the company is given a mining license to go into full operation in the next two years."
The hardships of a Gold rich people

Philip Kepson Dec 12, 2014

Life in Mt Kare, the renowned alluvial mine site in Enga, is exceptionally hard with no food gardens to support living.
On top of the difficult conditions for cultivating the land on one of the coldest parts of the country, 4500 metres above sea level, is the lack of a proper road network to transport food.
This is the life for more than 600 people who are currently residing around two popular mountains of Kare and Ipusa where gold and other minerals are reportedly located in tonnes.
The only means of making food available at the makeshift stores and local food at the temporary Maratane market is by man power.
Runners or carriers known locally as “containers” transport market and store goods via foot tracks from the Wali Creek near Porgera to Mt Kare.
The Local ward councilor for Paiela, Kandip Iyupi, says a single carrier is paid K30 for a trip by traders.
He said because the store items are paid four or five times more than the normal prices at Porgera station, dealers make good money to keep their business going.

Elven year old Angela Buka (pictured above), who walks more than 10 kilometers from Paiela to the mining site to sell vegetables on the weekends, makes over K150 a day for selling vegetables at K5 or more for a (small) bundle.
She said the current price for a live chicken was K100 while a 1kg packet of trukai rice would cost more than K15.
“It’s expensive here but the price doesn’t matter to the alluvial miners as they make enough money in a day to keep them going,” she said.
Community Affairs manager of Indochine which is the current exploration company that is undertaking an advance bankable feasibility study on Mt Kare and Ipusa gold prospect, Joe Pais, said the local people were still carrying out alluvial mining.
He said that will stop when the company is given a mining license to go into full operation in the next two years.
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Picture caption:
1. Eleven year old Anglea Buka, left, with an older woman selling vegetable and kaukau at Mt Kare’s Maratane local market.
2. Two men from Paiela also known only in Mt Kare as “containers” carrying store food items from Wali Creek near Porgera to Mt Kare.
They are expected to be paid K30 by the traders for carrying the items to the mine site for selling.
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