A miner holds an amalgam of mercury and gold, the fruits from working a 28-hour shift at an illegal gold mine in La Pampa on May 4. Thousands of artisanal gold miners sweat through the long shifts and endure, for a few grams of gold, the perils of collapsing earth, limb-crushing machinery and the toxic mercury used to bind gold flecks.
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