El Salvador’s Santa Elena mine once belonged to a US company, Butters Salvador Mining, which between 1904 and 1954 extracted 32 tons of gold from it. Abandoned by Butters during the country’s lengthy and bloody civil war, the mine is now worked unofficially by artisanal miners, among them the 67-year-old José Hernández.…

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