A Night view of the Tongon gold mine in Tongon Ivory Coast

TONGON
Gold is not forever,Ivorian boom town
worries about future;

Tongon once a poor rural community,
the village of Tongn in the northern
Ivory  Coast now  glows with well being
since becoming a regional  gold mining
hub five years ago,

Electricity and  clean water flows to all
the homes ,brick and mortar houses have
replaced many huts and new schools and
maternity clinic have sprung up

"The villages is becoming a fine place"boast
school headmaster Antoine Yapo Boni,
Randgold has also financed a high voltage
power line linking the Tongo mine to the
regional capital Korhogo,60 kilometers
away,for which it is negotiating repayment
terms with the Ivorian government

Overall,Randgold says it has invested $500
million dollars in the giant open cast mine,
but the firm declined to tell AFP how much
it makes in return,On its Internet site,it
reported a frofit of $134 million in 2013

 AFP