This picture taken in Kereng Pengi, Pontianak on August 24, 2013 shows an Indonesian vendor showing a piece of gold in Pontianak. - AFP
KERENG PANGI (Indonesia) (AFP): In a desolate area of central Indonesia where lush rainforest once stood, illegal miners on the frontline of a modern-day gold rush tear up the earth in the hunt for the precious metal.
Thousands of men use high-pressure hoses to blast tonnes of sand out of the ground daily in open pits around Kereng Pangi on Borneo island, before running it through filters to find specks of gold.
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