The Gloomy Story beneath the Golden Sheen
To mine gold, smallholding miners in southern Sukabumi, West Java, have to risk their lives in a stuffy hole with a diameter of 1 to 2 meters.
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The atmosphere inside the illegal gold mining hole in Waluran Mandiri Village, Waluran District, Sukabumi Regency, West Java, which is in the Ciletuh Earth Park area - Palabuhanratu, Thursday (3/9/2020). The miners work with high risk in the airless holes about 1 meter - 1.5 meter in diameter. These illegal gold mines are found in the Ciletuh Earth Park - Palabuhanratu.
To mine gold, smallholding miners in southern Sukabumi, West Java, have to risk their lives in a stuffy hole with a diameter of 1 to 2 meters. Some of them become sick because they struggle with the dust. Their income is also uncertain.
The gloomy life story of the gurandil, as smallholding miners are known, is far from the luster of the gold they hunt daily.