RANDY OLSON_MM7339_1222961.TIF
A man fixes 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.
- 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
