Gold miners Boonsom Aeamprasert (left) and Sunisa Srisuwanno pan for gold on the Sai Buri river, in Sukhirin district of Narathiwat, on Tuesday. (Reuters photo)
NARATHIWAT: As the yellowish mud swirls away in the waters of the Sai Buri river, Sunisa Srisuwanno lifts her wooden pan with a cluster of gleaming specks caught in the centre.
“That’s 100 baht,” she said, pointing to grains after little more than 15 minutes work with her gold panning partner, Boonsom Aeamprasert.
With global gold prices near an all-time high, the women are a rare bright spot for an economy hard hit by the collapse of tourism amid coronavirus travel restrictions.
“The gold panning business is doing well, especially during Covid-19,” said Ms Sunisa, a 37-year-old mother of two. “Panning gold is our main staple. We sell gold today,…
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