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Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River in Ghana. They worked in the tailings left by large industrial mines until run out by the military so they moved to riverbanks and work in a ruined landscape.

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RANDY OLSON
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Keywords
adult, africa, color image, crime and punishment, day, digging, dirty, four people, ghana, ghanaian people, ghanian ethnicity, gold, gold industry and production, illegal, illegal use of land, industry, industry and production, laborers, men, miners, mining, mud, national peoples, outdoors, peoples, photography, pra river, prestea, production, riverbanks, rivers, shirtless, soil
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The Price of GOLD_National Geographic magazine_1/2009
Illegal gold mining on the riverbanks of the Pra River in Ghana. They worked in the tailings left by large industrial mines until run out by the military so they moved to riverbanks and work in a ruined landscape.