To connect life, traditional gold miners in Sukamenang Village, Musi Rawas Utara Regency (Muratara), South Sumatra should voluntarily penetrate the underground passages to tens of meters to fight gold ores in underground rocks.
The traditional gold miner activity is very dangerous for miners because it is only assisted as the lighting tool is as present and "blower" which supplies additional oxygen when inside the galian hole.
The caliph of times is mined and entered hundreds of soil-burning meters, disasters such as landslides occur. It is often feared of traditional gold miners, but to meet the needs of life, things that harm the potent lives are not depressed. Some of the miners are killed due to the stimulating soil of the gallian land or out of oxygen while being inside the excavate hole.
Photos of traditional gold mining locations in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
Traditional gold miners show stone containing gold ore in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
To get the gold, for them is very easy to find in stones that look from the features of stone guratan (golden egg). Then, after getting the stone then crushed and processed in the place of collection of gold ore by grinding using the tool and mixed the racking water. Thus, the omission between stone, soil and gold ore.
Gold the traditional mining results are sold to the collector at the price ranges from Rp200 thousand per gram, the income per day as a gold repetitor does not encrypt. Average daily can be 20 grams of gold sold Rp5 million. However, there are times a day looking for not gold.
While the work as a traditional gold miner is quite dangerous, but they continue to do because the earnings are promising enough to support their survival.
The traditional gold miner breaks stone containing gold ore in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
A traditional gold miner shows a separate golden grain of the soil and stone in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
Photos and Texts: Nova Wahyudi
The traditional gold miner is in mining holes in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
The traditional gold miner is in mining holes in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
The traditional gold miner is inside the mining hole in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
The traditional gold miner is inside the mining hole in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
The pair of shoes used by traditional gold miners in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
The stone supply contains ore in traditional gold mining in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
The number of traditional gold miners rest at the mining cottage in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
The traditional gold mining area in Sukamenang Village, Muratara, South Sumatra.
