A number of miners began to prepare the fixture to enter traditional mine holes made by citizens since 1996 in Anggai Village, Obi District, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
One unit of the miners began to enter the hole by using the tools as is. They strive to penetrate the underground passages for destroy rock walls containing gold by capitalizing simple tools such as flashlights, hammers, boilers, as well as blowers for breathing inside holes.
" Unlike modern mining activity in general, traditional miners in Anggai only capitalize simple tools and the most important capital is just a vacan and power," Bilal phrase is one of the traditional miners in the area.
A number of mining workers posing before entering holes in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
Total mine workers fixtures in the residential Mining location, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
The miners begin to enter the wide hole about 3-5 meters and deepen up to 50 meters. They enter the hole while holding the rope as the pointer of the path. Not only the darkness that haunts their journeys snoring holes, but the soil at any time can be longsong to become a standalone. But to meet the needs of life, things that harm the lives are sometimes they are not ignored.
Sometimes miners are inside the hole for two days to hold the walls of the soil containing gold and they are able to collect 170 sacks up to 500 stone material umbrellas.
It’s not easy to spend a lot of disassembling from a small hole. But in terms of harm and cooperation, the unfortunate disassembling is able to be issued a unit that is further transported using a mine or commonly called “kijang”.
The work is preparing to enter the hole in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
Works into the hole of the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera District, North Maluku.
Their task bringing the results of the stone pool to the place of the tromol entrepreneur who later was crushed by the workers of mine workers until the size of gravel to the fine rock. Then the rock is mixed silver water or mercury and smoothed again for approximately four hours by using tromol.
After the processing process, the raw packaging that has been formed is sold to the collecters at Rp 700 thousand per gram. They are able to produce 10-12 grams of gold per one time the mining process that takes 3-4 days.
Anggai’s people’s mine is still continuing to produce today. Thousands of people hang their lives from the traditional mine. The mine has the permit of the People’s Mining Region since 2015.
The work of rocking in the hole of the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
The work rests inside the hole of the People's Mining location, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera District, North Maluku.
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) through the local government provides the help of one unit of gold processing tools without mercury to the People's Mine Cooperative in Anggai Village, Obi District. With the tool is expected that citizens can carry out environmentally friendly gold mining, it has no side effects that will end later to increase the welfare and economics of society.
Photo and text : Andri Saputra
A number of workers raised stones that have been rooted in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
The work of washing his face is incoming mining at the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
The work prepares the stone of mine results in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku.
A number of workers destroy the stone of mine results in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera Regency, North Maluku, Wes.
The work of transporting stones in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera District, North Maluku.
A number of mine workers fill water into the tromol when the process of gold processing in the People's Mining location, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera District, North Maluku.
The raw gold cooking work of mines in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera District, North Maluku.
The work shows the gold of mine results in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera District, North Maluku.
The feeling of confusion in the location of the People's Mining, Anggai Village, Obi Island, South Halmahera District, North Maluku, Wes.
Editor : Yusran Uccang
