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In this Thursday, May 8, 2014 photo, a coal miner lights a cigarette after a long of work at a mine near the city of Zirab 212 kilometers (132 miles) northeast of the capital Tehran, on a mountain in Mazandaran province northern Iran. Around 1,200 miners work across 10 mines in the Mazandaran province, in a mountainous, verdant area. More than 12,000 tons of coal is extracted from the mines each month, almost all of which is shipped south for use in Iran's steel industry. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)
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