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02-08-2016, 12:03 AM | #1 | ||
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Feb 8th, 2016: Serra Pelada (Naked Mountain)
Serra Pelada (Naked Mountain) is in Brazil where giant ants swam over the... naw, just kidding.
Them be people swarming, a 100,000 of them carrying sacks of dirt weighing between 45 and 65 lbs, out of that hole. Why? For money of course, dig, fill and carry for 20 cents a bag. Oh, and the second reason was gold. Quote:
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Officially they dug 45 tons of gold out of that hole, but word on the street is 90% was smuggled away uncounted. Photo credit: Sebastião Salgado link link
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02-08-2016, 07:16 AM | #2 |
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I thought that looked REALLY familar, especially the third photo.
http://tinyurl.com/gn4jx3k Front cover http://tinyurl.com/hf7gnjk Back cover I might be the only person in my current home state who still has (or ever had) this album. On vinyl. Scary thought that people are so desperate they will manually disassemble a MOUNTAIN for the sake of a few flecks of the right elemental metal. |
02-08-2016, 07:28 AM | #3 | |
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The images at the first link are amazing.
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02-08-2016, 07:33 AM | #4 |
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I think the choice to shoot in black and white makes these pictures more powerful and timeless.
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02-08-2016, 07:52 AM | #6 |
To shreds, you say?
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Salgado is an amazing photographer. I think Nowhere Man has an anecdote about him.
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02-08-2016, 11:46 AM | #7 |
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Won't work for me. FireFox issue maybe.
Second link works.
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02-08-2016, 11:53 AM | #8 |
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Bruce's first link, not Snake's first link.
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02-11-2016, 03:04 PM | #9 |
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Ah. Gotchya.
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02-12-2016, 11:08 AM | #10 |
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For all its beauty and utility, gold has always been drawn forth in cruel and harrowing ways.
I probably couldn't even climb one of those ladders, but to make it worse, the loads were not 45 to 65 pounds but 90 to 150 (30-60 kg). |
02-12-2016, 11:13 AM | #11 |
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Whoops. 66 to 132 pounds.
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02-12-2016, 01:51 PM | #12 |
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You're right, I fucked up my pounds and kilograms.
Looking at the picture, the size of the bags don't look that heavy. Comparing them to 50 lb bag of concrete, that must be awful heavy soil.
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02-12-2016, 02:21 PM | #13 |
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Gold is dense.
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02-12-2016, 02:32 PM | #14 |
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Not much gold in those bags, maybe coprolite.
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02-12-2016, 03:05 PM | #15 |
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They look like bags of mud to me.
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