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A woman pans for gold with a kitchen calabash in a riverbed, Sierra Leone, 9 January 2006. This woman and others like her form the backbone of Sierra Leone's small-scale alluvial gold-mining industry, where 90 percent of the prospecting is done by women
Victoria Averill/IRIN

  • A woman pans for gold with a kitchen calabash in a riverbed, Sierra Leone, 9 January 2006. This woman and others like her form the backbone of Sierra Leone's small-scale alluvial gold-mining industry, where 90 percent of the prospecting is done by women

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  • Credits Victoria Averill/IRIN
  • Themes Human Rights
  • Regions Sierra Leone

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