Elie Mundima

Category: Out on Patrol | Date: Feb 28 2007 | By: admin

As promised, I will tell you how you can become an overnight millionaire in the Congo.

When the Belgiums left our country, many of their people buried stock piles of minerals in the ground in the hope to return at a later date and retrieve these valuable resources. As such, throughout Virunga National Park, it is possible to find small mounds of stones where these minerals are hidden. Here we are in the picture below, in Ishango, with one of these mounds which has been marked with stones.

It is possible to find under these mounds such minerals like red mercury, gold, zinc and uranium, however there is a catch. Not all of these mounds contain minerals, and instead some of them act as markers which, from the layout of the stones, reveal the true location of the minerals.

And so they act like a treasure map, and near the mound above we found four similar mounds. Unfortunately for us, this means that local people often come to the Park and dig up all the surrounding ground in search of these minerals and can cause much damage to the area.

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