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...Fecky lowers his voice. Standing a few yards away, watching eagerly as one of his workers squeezes a cloth holding the precious mercury and gold mixture, is Freddy Sigarlaki, the owner of the processing unit. Eyes glistening, Sigarlaki explains how he spent about $3,000?several decades' income for most of the farmers in the area?sinking a shaft on a nearby piece of land he owns. The soil yielded hardly any gold. Undeterred, Sigarlaki boasts he has now hired an excavator from Manado at $20 an hour to dig farther and deeper and faster. "No, no, there...
...sometimes seems as though everyone?Yan Peter Tamban, the desperate miners, processing unit workers like Michael, gold-struck villagers like Freddy Sigarlaki, the army and police?wants things to go on as they are. Or like Fecky, who lives next to a processing unit, and powerless government officials like Bonny, who simply accept that there's no way to stop the mining. Everyone except Daniel Limbong, that is. Unlike the others, he has seen what happened to scores of other mineworkers, what happened to Femmy's baby boy. And now, "we have a report of a second deformed baby born...
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