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  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
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  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • Excavating machinery in the main pit at the Marlin gold mine, Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Canadian company, Goldcorp.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • A bus leaves Sipacapa, San Marcos. The local population here is said to be exposed to high levels of metals in the drinking water and rivers because of the nearby Marlin mine...The Marlin mine has open-pit and underground mining operations for gold. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is located in the municipalities of Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Goldcorp, a Canadian company and is heavily criticised. According to a study by the University of Michigan "the negative impacts of the mine on human health and ecosystem quality in the region have the potential to increase in the coming years and last for decades".
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  • The tailing pond at the Marlin mine, Guatemala. The Marlin mine has open-pit and underground mining operations for gold. The gold is cyanide-leached. The mine is located in the municipalities of Sipacapa and San Miguel Ixtahuacán, San Marcos, Guatemala. The mine is owned by Montana, a subsidiary of Goldcorp, a Canadian company and is heavily criticised. According to a study by the University of Michigan "the negative impacts of the mine on human health and ecosystem quality in the region have the potential to increase in the coming years and last for decades".
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Marlin_mine_gold_20...jpg
  • A miner has washed away stone sediment to leave behind this mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga". The miner manually squeezes out liquid mercury to leave the harder part of the amalgam, loaded with gold particles, this is burned to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
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  • Burning a lump of mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga" to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. Here the gold cools down. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5353.jpg
  • Burning a lump of mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga" to remove the mercury as a vapor and leave just the gold. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5352.jpg
  • A miner does a traditional test in a "cacho", a cow horn, to check for gold particles in gold ore. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5346.jpg
  • A miner holds a bowl with mercury near an "arrastra" type gold mill. Mercury is used to trap gold particles in artisanal mining. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5328.jpg
  • A miner has washed away stone sediment to leave behind this mercury-gold amalgam known as "asoga". The miner manually squeezes out liquid mercury to leave the harder part of the amalgam, loaded with gold particles. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5351.jpg
  • A miner checks the flow of waste from an "arrastra" type mill. Crushed rock is washed away and some gold particles are trapped on a metal sheet covered in a mercury solution. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5339.jpg
  • A miner walks through a narrow opening into a tunnel underground in a gold mine. The temperature undergound is often high, and the air is often poor. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5377.jpg
  • Here a small lump of gold, product of small-scale mining with mercury is held in a miner's hand. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5354.jpg
  • An "arrastra" type gold mill in operation. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5343.jpg
  • Runoff from an "arrastra" type mill. Crushed rock is washed away and some gold particles are trapped on a metal sheet covered in a mercury solution. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5341.jpg
  • Runoff from an "arrastra" type mill. Crushed rock is washed away and some gold particles are trapped on a metal sheet covered in a mercury solution. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5342.jpg
  • A young gold miner underground holds a pickaxe at the entrance to a tunnel. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5300.jpg
  • Mercury is used to trap gold particles in artisanal mining. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5325.jpg
  • A woman breaks gold ore or "broza" with a hammer in a "trapiche" style mill, also known as "molino chileno". In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111208_5235.jpg
  • A miner is winched by hand down a narrow mine shaft. The winch has no brake or stop bolt and the miner has no helmet. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5295.jpg
  • A "trapiche" style mill, also known as "molino chileno". In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111208_5132.jpg
  • In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5383.jpg
  • A tube of plastic explosives, C4, is inserted into a hole in a rock face underground. The two-foot long fuse used here is lit with a flame, and the miner must leave the mine quickly, being manually hoisted to the surface by his co-workers. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5379.jpg
  • In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5363.jpg
  • In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5360.jpg
  • The view descending a narrow mine shaft. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111209_5296.jpg
  • At the SOTRAMI laboratory and foundry, molten gold is poured into an ingot.
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  • Ing. Camilo Campos. Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
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  • Tito Torres Uscamayta, miner. Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
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  • A miner at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • A miner at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_01...jpg
  • Juan Poma, miner and driller. Image taken at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_00...jpg
  • A miner at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_00...jpg
  • At the SOTRAMI laboratory and foundry, molten gold is poured into an ingot.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140622_10...jpg
  • Nicolás Janampa Huacho, 62, miner. Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • Edson Lima Chipa. Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • A miner at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • A miner at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • A miner at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_01...jpg
  • Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_01...jpg
  • Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_01...jpg
  • A miner at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_00...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • in the mine lab, tests with silver nitrate to check gold purity
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  • Alberto Escobedo Lozano. Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • Teofila, mine worker from Puno. Tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate photographs.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • Policeman with his pistol. Several policemen arrived at the hut I was staying in one night, and asked for their portraits to be taken. Part of a set of tintype portraits from the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Peru. These are scans of collodion wetplate images.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_02...jpg
  • A miner stands underground in a gold mine in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua. The temperature undergound is high, and the air is often poor quality.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5376.jpg
  • A man pans for gold in a drain on a street used by goldsmiths in Old Dkaha, Bangladesh
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
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  • A cook at the SOTRAMI gold and silver mine in Santa Filomena, Ayacucho, Peru. The image is a scan from a tintype, made using the wetplate collodion process from 1851, and using silver mined at the SOTRAMI mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140600_01...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • Oceana Gold mining operations in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.
    Philippines_Hawkey_Oceana_mining_201...jpg
  • A young girl stands in the Cuiko river near the Marlin mine in Guatemala.
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  • Young people sit at a market stall in Sipacapa. The population of Sipacapa is worried about the effects of the MArlin mine on their health. There are many reported cases of skin problems linked to the high metal content of water sources around the mine.
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  • A young girl jumps between rocks in the Cuiko river near the Marlin mine in Guatemala.
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  • Lead miners drill into rock underground at the SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho.
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  • A lead miner drills into rock underground at the SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho.
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  • A street scene in In La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua.
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  • Ana Hernandez, cocoa farmer at UNCRISPROCA Fairtrade cocoa farms in La Cruz de Rio Grande, RAAS, Nicaragua.
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  • Technical staff from CACOANICA Aydali Granados and Johana Palacio laughing during a cocoa training workshop in Ocote Tuma, Waslala. Cooperativa de Servicios Agroforestal y Comercialización de Cacao, CACAONICA, is located in Waslala, Nicaragua and is Fairtrade-certified.
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