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Tin Mining In Bangka Island Click here for this week’s top video clips

I’ve talked about the devastation that illegal tin mining has wrought on the island of Bangka (Indonesia), and while preparing my talk for the Nightmarket 2008 workshop I came across this video which gives us a glimpse into the squalid conditions that widespread unregulated economies can wreak on the environment.

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