Environment

Gold miners risk lives

By ANNE USHER

Indonesian miners risk lives in modern-day Gold Rush.

IN a desolate area of central Indonesia where lush rainforest once stood, illegal miners on the front line of a modern-day Gold Rush tear up the earth in the hunt for the precious metal.

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