Georgia: Svaneti Gold Prospectors Seek the Monster
2011-3-3 · To Svans, this mighty, 213-kilometer-long river, which courses through western Georgia and into the breakaway territory of Abkhazia, is a liquid gold highway. Many Svans, in fact, believe that the Inguri hydropower station’s dam, the world’s highest arch dam, was built under Soviet rule to accumulate all the gold that flows with the river.
