el solenn c.-o. is a giant underground labyrinth of complex tunnels here one thousand one hundred people work and you really have to know where you're going. this is the vein. here is where the gold is found from here on down and here on up. sometimes it is of interest sometimes not. because the concentration is. what really interests this is this the fam. at five hundred meters under the surface of the earth the atmosphere is us fixating heat humidity and thick dust make it hard to breathe. level eighteen is the deepest you can get. from levels one thousand to forty four everything is flooded. half the mine is under water and dozens of pumps are trying to pull the water up to the surface. even in this state however. produces about seven kilos of gold a month. this is considered to be a typical global gold deposit he ordered and at the present moment is one of the best in colombia. gold is the barometer of fear. in the midst of the two thousand and eleven coble economic crisis on the twenty second of