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Let’s Talk about Gold (37 pics)

Posted in Pictures 22 Jan 2010 / 7133 views

Few facts about gold: a total of 161,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009 (with half of that extracted in just the past 50 year).
India is the world’s largest consumer and importer of gold as Indians buy about 25% of the world’s gold, purchasing approximately 800 tonnes of gold every year and importing around 400 tonnes of gold.
The most famous precious metal has never been so expensive than today but it won’t prevent people to buy it..
Now let’s see diverse pictures about gold, from mining to buying, enjoying, discovering and selling gold…

Let’s Talk about Gold (37 pics)

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The extraction of sapphires in Madagascar (25 pics)

Posted in Pictures 4 Aug 2009 / 5146 views

A small village in the region Ilaka in Madagascar is the home for a sapphire site and it is the source of half the production of sapphires in the world.
Illegal miners work here in conjunction with large-scale productions. All sapphire businesses here operate almost without any control, in an atmosphere of "Wild West" with its lawlessness and crime.
According to official studies, 19 thousands of children out of 21 who live there are working in sapphire mines.

The extraction of sapphires in Madagascar (25 pics)

The extraction of sapphires in Madagascar (25 pics)

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What is a hard work? (19 pics)

Posted in Pictures 29 May 2009 / 21624 views

I want to show you how Indonesian miners who extract sulfur are working at the Ijen volcano in East Java.
They have to work in inhuman conditions and it is extremely dangerous to health. But what else can they do, there’s no other work in the region...

What is a hard work? (19 pics)