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  • Gold and silver miners of the Fairtrade-certified SOTRAMI mining group demonstrated in Lima about a an illegal claim on the land in the SOTRAMI concession which is forcing them to stop work in a large part of the mine.
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  • Gold and silver miners of the Fairtrade-certified SOTRAMI mining group demonstrated in Lima about a an illegal claim on the land in the SOTRAMI concession which is forcing them to stop work in a large part of the mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_protest_20140618...jpg
  • Gold and silver miners of the Fairtrade-certified SOTRAMI mining group demonstrated in Lima about a an illegal claim on the land in the SOTRAMI concession which is forcing them to stop work in a large part of the mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_protest_20140618...jpg
  • Gold and silver miners of the Fairtrade-certified SOTRAMI mining group demonstrated in Lima about a an illegal claim on the land in the SOTRAMI concession which is forcing them to stop work in a large part of the mine.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_protest_20140618...jpg
  • Tito Torres Uscamayta, 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_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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    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.
    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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  • Carmen Ananayo, Vice-President of DESAMA, Didipio Earth Savers Multiple Purpose Association with Ramon.
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  • Carmen Ananayo, Vice-President of DESAMA, Didipio Earth Savers Multiple Purpose Association.
    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
  • 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
  • Ing. Camilo Campos. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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.
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  • 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
  • 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.
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  • 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.
    nicaragua_hawkey_20111210_5357.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 measures a quantity of mercury using a syringe before adding it to a working mill to trap gold particles. 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_5333.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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Miners sort sacks of mineral into a cart underground at the SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140622_83...jpg
  • Miners' wives prepare a meal for mining families outside the SOTRAMI mine during a dispute over a concession.
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  • wetplate images of miners
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  • Lead miners drill into rock underground at the SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140622_80...jpg
  • Underground at the SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho, miners work on a timber structure to make a walkway safe.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140622_54...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 "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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Miners' wives prepare a meal for mining families outside the SOTRAMI mine during a dispute over a concession.
    Peru_Hawkey_SOTRAMI_mining_20140626_...jpg
  • Miners' wives prepare a meal for mining families outside the SOTRAMI mine during a dispute over a concession.
    Peru_Hawkey_SOTRAMI_mining_20140626_...jpg
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • miner.
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  • A wetplate collodion image of a miner, drying on a rack
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  • A lead miner drills into rock underground at the SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140622_80...jpg
  • Underground at the SOTRAMI mine in Ayacucho, a miner checks marks on the mine wall.
    Peru_hawkey_SOTRAMI_mine_20140622_53...jpg
  • miner.
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