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Real Name: Frédéric van Haute
Lives In: Lubumbashi, CD
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Off The Beaten Path: Gold diggers
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  • Written by Alpha_Ghana on Apr 28, 2004
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    • Mali - small gold mine for village people
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    • Mali has become a gold producer for the past ten years. Major international gold companies settled in the country.
    However, gold is abundant and there are some places where the quantity is too small for a heavy exploitation, so local digger create their own mine.
    All Malian gold is exported, the jewelery you find in Mali is made of gold from Dubai.
    Go and see a small gold mine. Watch people digging with hand made tools, people paddling to produce light inside the tunnels, etc.
    PIcture from Kekoro, small village around Sanso-Domba, Region III, on the road Bamako - Sikasso, go to the North at Koumantou, direction Sanso.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Gold mine
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    • Mali - Open Gold mine Kekoro
  • Open Gold mine Kekoro
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    • Open gold mine

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    Off The Beaten Path: Tour de France?
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  • Written by Alpha_Ghana on Apr 28, 2004
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    • Mali - bikes in Mali
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    • Bike is very well used in the Malian villages, but be carefull, no lights, no brakes, just two wheels, two paddles and a frame...

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    Off The Beaten Path: Rural market
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  • Written by Alpha_Ghana on Apr 29, 2004
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    • Mali - rural general store
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    • As soon as you leave Bamako, you are directly in the bush. Only alongside the main road you will find electricity and sometimes phone lines.
    In the villages, no electricity, no phone, no water, just earthblock houses.
    In the "rich" villages you can buy modern equipment like plastic barkets.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Malian petrol stations
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  • Updated by Alpha_Ghana on Apr 17, 2007
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    • Mali - Malian petrol station
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    • There are only few petrol stations in Mali, all in the main cities. On the roads or in the villages, you have some people selling petrol in a bottle. You can buy a bottle of beer full of petrol.
    (Don't use this petrol, your engine will be angry with you!)

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    Off The Beaten Path: Nuclear explosion on Ouéléssédougou
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  • Written by Alpha_Ghana on Jan 9, 2005
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    • Ouéléssédougou is a small town on the road between Bamako and Bougouni. In the beginning of the raining season 2004, I saw this incredible cloud on the town.
    I cannot tell the name of this cloud but It stragely looks like an atomic mushroom

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    elpariente Wed Jul 12, 2006 16:51 UTC
     Really good pages "Gracias"    		Sininen Wed Apr 26, 2006 15:27 UTC
     Hello Frédéric! Happy birthdya from Finland! What an amazing page of Mali, looks so interesting. I must get there one day.
    sachara Wed Jul 13, 2005 21:40 UTC
     Nice to read about your experiences in Mali, Frederic. Interesting shopping tip, will keep it in mind.    		ludogatto Sat Jun 4, 2005 16:41 UTC
     now 'sailing' on the vt looking to motorcycle trips I find u with your moto....i'd like to do a tirp in Ghana and than Mali...but i need time....dream for the moments!
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