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Miners in an amalgam pond mix mercury with ore to separate out the gold. Workers test high levels of mercury after working, bathing and brushing their teeth in the toxic water.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
- Keywords
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adult, asia, borneo, borneo island (indonesia), color image, extracting, galangan, gold, gold industry and production, illegal, indonesia, indonesian ethnicity, industry, industry and production, kalimantan, laborers, medium group of people, men, mercury, mercury (metal), metals and metallic substances, miners, mining, ore, outdoors, panning, photography, pollutant, ponds, production, reflection, sifting, silhouettes, southeast asia, toxic, twilight, water, wet, working
- Contained in galleries
- The Price of GOLD_National Geographic magazine_1/2009
