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Men work on mining equipment in a muddy pit in a search for gold in Borneo. Such operations leave a devastated landscape and miners test high for mercury earning about $5US a day.

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RANDY OLSON
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6000x4000 / 137.4MB
Keywords
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
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The Price of GOLD_National Geographic magazine_1/2009
Men work on mining equipment in a muddy pit in a search for gold in Borneo. Such operations leave a devastated landscape and miners test high for mercury earning about $5US a day.