{"id":4561,"date":"2012-06-06T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2012-06-06T05:09:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:09:36","slug":"a-haitian-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-haitian-gold-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"A Haitian Gold Rush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060512_1114_AHaitianGol1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Could there be a gold rush in Haiti? Martha Mendoza reported on some promising developments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The shifting tectonic plates that were responsible for the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti have, quite literally, a silver lining: they cause deep cracks where veins of gold, silver and copper can be found.<\/li>\n<li>The precious metals underneath Haiti are estimated to be worth $20 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Haiti&#8217;s annual government budget is $1 billion, the majority coming from foreign assistance. The economy received another $2 billion from Haitians working abroad.<\/li>\n<li>The last time gold was gathered in Haiti was the 1500s. Since then corruption and instability have kept investors away.<\/li>\n<li>However interest is now aroused. Because of the way that mining rights were sold, Haitians might get $1 out of every $2 profits \u2013 in contrast to the $1:$3 ratio seen in most other mining countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read many more details including the connection with Christopher Columbus, neighboring Dominican Republic&#8217;s experience with buried metals, the cholera handshake, how much various companies have invested in exploration, the role that corruption may play, and the dangers of mining click <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/gold-haiti-hopes-ore-spur-mining-boom-210945104.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/gold-haiti-hopes-ore-spur-mining-boom-210945104.html\">Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/05\/assorted-links-458.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could there be a gold rush in Haiti? Martha Mendoza reported on some promising developments: The shifting tectonic plates that were responsible for the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti have, quite literally, a silver lining: they cause deep cracks where veins of gold, silver and copper can be found. The precious metals underneath Haiti are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060512_1114_AHaitianGol1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}