RANDY OLSON_MM7339_1198338.TIF
Fevered by hopes of striking it rich, illegal miners claw sacks of “money stone” –gold ore- from the Pra River in Ghana. Their toll feeds the world’s hunger for gold, and leaves a ruined landscape in its wake.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
- Image Size
- 6000x3999 / 434.8MB
- Keywords
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adult, carrying, color image, crime and punishment, day, digging, dirty, geography, ghana, ghanian ethnicity, gold, gold industry and production, illegal, illegal use of land, industry, industry and production, laborers, large group of people, men, miners, mining, mud, outdoors, photography, pra river, prestea, production, rivers, sacks, shirtless, shorelines
- Contained in galleries
- The Price of GOLD_National Geographic magazine_1/2009
