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Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit where waste from the gold mining operation is collected. Amalgam ponds have high readings of mercury, yet workers bath and brush their teeth in the water.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 137.4MB
- Keywords
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adult, asia, borneo, borneo island (indonesia), color image, disasters, equipment, galangan, geography, getty, gold, gold industry and production, health/occupational hazards, high angle view, image composition, indonesia, indonesian ethnicity, indonesian islands people, industry, industry and production, island peoples, kalimantan, laborers, man, mercury (metal), metals and metallic substances, miners, mud, night, one person, outdoors, peoples, photography, pits, ponds, production, repairing, riverbanks, rivers, shorelines, soil, southeast asia, unrecognizable people, water
- Contained in galleries
- The Price of GOLD_National Geographic magazine_1/2009
