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This artisanal gold site in Burkina Faso was home to some 10,000 people. And while these locations can be home to some of the more difficult aspects of humanity (extremism, organised crime, environmental degradation, slavery, etc.) they also provide unique upward mobility pathways for people to move from extreme poverty and into more skilled vocations such as those we are used to in the developed world. (Photo by Hugh Brown/South West News Service)
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