Making a Mine
A new pit in an old rubber garden
Creating a reservoir for sprayers
In the unprotected tunnel mine
Into the tunnel
Clearing the pit's floor, former peat forest
Placing the flexible pipes to suction gold slurry
Morning prep: recycling sluice carpets
Carpeting the sluice
The longest sluice
Making slurry 20 meters down
Spreading newly made tailings inside the peat pit
“We are the smallholders now.” (A crew boss, referring to the difficulties of smallholder farming. Ketapang.)