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Under The Ground With Indonesia's Gold Miners


 Miners mine for gold inside a tunnel in an illegal gold mine in Poboya in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.


 A miner, Halim, 35, tries to break stones containing gold materials in a tunnel at the site of Poboya.

 Miners dig at the ground to find stones containing gold material. Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world by population.

 A manual gold smelting process is seen in Poboya.

 Miners carry sacks of stones containing gold material.


 A miner uses a bamboo stick to remove stones containing gold material from the hillside at the site.



 A local gold trader shows a piece of gold after he purchased it from a gold miner at the mine site in Poboya.



 A miner carries a sack of stones containing gold material at the site.


Sacks of stones containing gold are seen before being transported to a smelting plant near the site of Poboya mining area in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.


Miners remove sacks of stones containing gold material from a tunnel.

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