At an altitude of 2,000 meters, in a completely deserted part of Canada, a West Flemish man mines for gold. “Playing football was too boring,” says Mathieu De Baere (41). In its hangar: a gold-painted yard crane. In his hands: gold nuggets, which he digs up on his own land six months a year. “They call me the crazy Belgian guy in Canada. But I am already the fifth largest gold prospector in the area.”
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Mathieu (41) leaves his family behind for 6 months a year to mine gold in Canada: “I fervently hoped that he would come to his senses. Unfortunately”
