The Smelter of #Kereng_Pangi
I heard Fahrul Raji’s voice on the radio in 2013. Fahrul is a smelter in Kereng Pangi, a town in the Central Kalimantan province of Indonesia. Each day, in the shop passed down to him by his father, he works with a blow-torch, burning small pieces of amalgam that are brought to him by local miners. These pieces of amalgam are the products of an illegal form of gold mining, one that uses mercury to extract small quantities of gold from the slurry of tonnes of earth and rock.
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