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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Explosives set in pit at mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Men fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • A man fixing mining equipment in a muddy pit.
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  • Areas of Borneo have been turned into a moonscape by illegal gold miners in Central Kalimantan. Indonesian farmers turn their hoes to mining, illegally digging for gold on a torn up riverbank in Borneo. For the chance to make five dollars a day, thousands have left their fields to join Indonesia’s gold rush. East Java has high unemployment and there are many migrant workers on Kalimantan (Borneo) that came from Java initially to do artisanal timber work. The government stomped out the little timber guys in favor of two big companies so they could control (read “profit from”) the industry. So all the artisanal timber workers switched to gold. Miners test in the 1000-ppm plus range for mercury (normal is 170 to 300). Eastern Java is severely overcrowded and the government has an official transmigration program over to Kalimantan. In Eastern Java they can earn about 100RP a day hoeing the fields. Here they can earn upwards of 30,000-60,000RP ($3-$6) a day. So it is worth it to camp in this area, having only the water (full of mercury) from the amalgam ponds to bathe and drink.
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  • Gold miners in Kalimantan.
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  • A gold miner in Kalimantan.
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  • A woman truck driver at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock are monitored at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Gold camp at mile-wide Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • A photographer on assignment at a gold mine in Ghana.
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  • A gold miner in Kalimantan.
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  • A laborer at a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • A truck that hauls waste rock is washed at Batu Hijau mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Trucks hauling waste rock at Batu Hijau, a copper and gold mine.
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  • Indonesian farmers illegally digging for gold on a torn up riverbank.
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  • Laborers gather for a wedding in Harappa town. These laborers work in the archeological area and often drums are used as they dig the pits by hand.
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  • Men digging for gold in a pit in the Ituri forest of Congo.
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  • A worker digs newly fired bricks from a pit.  Another sits nearby smoking.
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  • This is the "quarry" area on Easter Island.<br />
The Moai were carved out of the rock above this spot and slid down the slopes into a pit to bring the statue upright.  Once in the pit, they finished the carving on the backside.  These Moai left in the quarry were abandoned throughout time… not like Pompeii… Many of the Moai are left because they didn’t get the center of gravity right or there is a major rock inclusion in a bad area of the statue.  <br />
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Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world.  The nearest population center is Chile (2300 miles) and the nearest Polynesian center in the opposite direction is Tahiti (2600 miles).  Easter Island, (Rapa Nui, Isla de Pascua) is famous for Moai everywhere along the coast toppled on their Ahu’s and littered abandoned in the center along the Moai roads used to transport them.
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  • Sunset and shadows fall across a building in Lowry Pueblo, an archeological site located in Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. A treasure of Ansazi Indian ruins in Colorado, the pueblo was constructed around 1060 AD atop abandoned pit houses from an earlier period of occupation. A total of 40 rooms and 8 kivas at its peak in the early 11th century, it was home to approximately 100 people. The 176,000 acre monument of federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management includes 20,000 archeological sites.
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