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Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining
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West Kalimantan Extractions
Making a Mine
The Gold Panning Specialists
At Work in the Mines
Laboring Bodies in Mining Landscapes
Everyday Life in the Mining Camp
Workers and Technology
Portraits of a Mining Community
Life and Death on the Edges
Communities on the Tailings
Small-scale Mining's Extractive Landscapes
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Spreading newly made tailings inside the peat pit
Placing the flexible pipes to suction gold slurry
Carpeting the sluice
The longest sluice
The indispensable mechanic
Sluice ready, early morning
Raft mining crew
Pit crew in sync
Panner in a small-scale mine
Uncanny refreshment
Working the slurry base
A light dusting
On golden pond
Uprooting
Hillside mining community
Carrier
Inside the mill, separating gold from ore
Women panning the river
Entanglements
Lunch on site
On the way to work
Mining laborer, ice-pop break
Industrial scale slucing
Tapping the water supply
Men and their machine
Crew buddies
Hard labor
Below the cutting edge
Crew boss
Landslide on the vertical frontier
Undermining assessment
Working vertically
Tipping point
Watcher 1
On the edge
Memorial jar at accident site
The panner's golden dream
The Gold Farmers
Nancy Peluso in East Singkawang
Three danger zones in one
Immersion
Header Image
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Workday's end, removing the carpets of hope
Mining worker
Morning coffee
Clearing the pit's floor, former peat forest
Morning prep: recycling sluice carpets
Creating a reservoir for sprayers
In the unprotected tunnel mine
A new pit in an old rubber garden
Into the tunnel
A new pit in an old rubber garden
Creating slurry from a wall of peat
Extracting peat forest roots
Clearing the pit's rocky bottom
Tandem sprayers
First panning, straight from the carpets
A 12-man crew pausing after breakfast
Collecting ores from tunnel mine
Second Home, dormitory
Mattress delivery
Equipment hauling
The shop and home base
Food stall scene
Climbing an unstable pit wall
A good day on the surface
Mining laborer, day's end
A boss with her son
Watcher and watched
Watcher 2
The Gold Farmers
Megazine Cover
The look
Edges
In it, of it
From swamp forest to mega mining pit, Ketapang
Road to a forest settlement, Ketapang
Mount Raya from Buduk mining area
The look1
Building community on the tailings
Home sweet home (and a panning pond)
Shipping point, Raya River
Abandoned crew housing
Log raft on the Raya River
Indonesia
Repurposing a smallholder rubber garden
Pit panorama (Click to view full-screen)
The means of landscape production
No roads across the peat swamp tailings
Pit stops, lower and upper levels
Barren playground
No way back to the forest
Gimme shelter
From tailings to oil palm plantation
Final consolidation; expert panner
Steamy lake in place of a peat swamp
Gold ball in a mercury wrapping
Sunrise on a new lake
Lazy river of slurry
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