You can find it high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of the western state of California.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Do any of you know the movie called ? The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?

你们有人看过一部叫,《浴血金沙》的电影吗？

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These areas include the Alps in Italy and Switzerland, the coastal mountains of western Canada, and the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

In the winter, heavy snow falls in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

It is deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The ceremony is part of a community reconciliation process led by the Sierra Leonean peace-building organization, Fambul Tok.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

The Freetown sessionof that court has convicted the last of the Sierra Leoneanrebels indicted.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Working with the Michigan chapter of the environmental group the Sierra Club, she now presents state authorities with data several times a week along a 200-kilometer circuit.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

It takes place in the mountains of the Eastern High Sierra near Yosemite National Park.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

Monty Jones, a rice expert from Sierra Leone, was the winner in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

Monty Jones,a rice expert from Sierra Leone, was the winner in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

The others were Norway, Samoa,Sierra Leone, the United States and Uruguay.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

His defense case, conducted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, is now in its ninth week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The commission held public hearings in Sierra Leone's major cities and regional towns, but did not reach remote villages like Dugba-yeima.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Senior Administrator for Cluff Gold,Clifford Patnelli, says mining for gold in the hard rock will be a first for Sierra Leone.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Though the majority of Cluff Gold's employees will be Sierra Leonean, the mine will rely more on machines than manpower.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"Because most of the gold deposits found in Sierra Leone, which had been worked on, were from the alluvial deposits.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Sankoh,a former army corporal and photographer, led the first attacks on villages in a diamond-rich province of Sierra Leone in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Why he lied I don't know,". This is the last case before the U.N.Special Court for Sierra Leone.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Prosecutors say Mr.Taylor - then president of West African Liberia - exchanged the diamonds for weapons, which he smuggled into Sierra Leone.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

He has dismissed the war crimes charges against him as "lies" and said he had nothing to gain from destabilizing Sierra Leone.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Kowa says,unlike many jobs in Sierra Leone, the profits to be had from artisanal gold mining are steady.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The prosecution says that Mr.Taylor - then president of Liberia -- controlled rebel forces in Sierra Leone who raped,murdered,and mutilated thousands of civilians.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

But,on Thursday, the 61-year-old Taylor rejected the allegations of a prosecution witness who said Taylor had transported arms to Sierra Leone by road.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Charles Taylor has been charged by the Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone with 11 war crimes charges, including murder,rape,sexual enslavement and recruiting child soldiers.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Among the allegations, prosecutors say he provided weapons to the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone in exchange for access to so-called 'blood diamonds."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Horatio Nelson-Williams is coordinator of the Education For All program at Sierra Leone's Ministry of Education.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Diamonds are central to the case. The prosecution says Mr.Taylor traded diamonds mined in Sierra Leone for weapons, which he smuggled into the country.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

A team of Israeli and Palestinian youths is competing, as well as squads from Rwanda, Sierra Leone,Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia,Cambodia, Britain and the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up in 2002 to document the human rights abuses committed during the war and foster healing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07