This article analyses the relationships among speculative rumour, everyday storytelling, and financial speculation that impact small‐scale gold mining towns in Colombia. By following the stories surrounding the visit of Arnold Schwarzenegger to Marmato, a mining town in central Colombia, and its consequences, I explore how people speculate about such ‘speculative’ visits so as to reframe the events as part of wider colonial histories. I aim to comprehend the affective constellation of lives criss‐crossed by financial speculation and the political openings created by rumour, storytelling, and fabulation. I argue that people locate the Schwarzenegger visit as part of a crisis‐ridden history that counters the narratives of modern and responsible mining. The argument contributes to the conceptualization of speculation in anthropology, as well as to questions of history, temporality, and politics of extractive frontiers. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2016 and 2019 in the central Andes of Colombia and with governmental and corporate representatives.

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金矿终结者：哥伦比亚采掘前沿的投机影响

本文分析了影响哥伦比亚小型金矿城镇的投机谣言、日常故事和金融投机之间的关系。通过追踪阿诺·施瓦辛格访问哥伦比亚中部矿业小镇马尔马托的故事及其后果，我探讨了人们如何推测这种“投机”访问，以便将这些事件重新构建为更广泛的殖民历史的一部分。我的目标是了解由金融投机和谣言、讲故事和虚构所造成的政治空缺交织在一起的生活中的情感星座。我认为，人们将施瓦辛格的访问视为充满危机的历史的一部分，与现代负责任采矿的叙述相悖。这一论点有助于人类学思辨的概念化，也有助于解决历史、时间性和采掘边界政治问题。本文基于 2016 年至 2019 年在哥伦比亚安第斯山脉中部与政府和企业代表进行的人种学实地调查。