Mining
The Tin War

THE deafening sounds of the Donveng water pumps broke the silence of the forests near Desa Penyamun, Kecamatan Pemali, in Bangka, where PT Bangka Belitung Timah Sejahtera, a tin-smelting company, operates a mining concession. That Wednesday a fortnight ago it was raining as 12 miners were digging for tin. One miner named Tebi, descended into a pit 5 meters deep. The 19-year-old worked on mounds of earth as fellow miners kept mud-sucking pumps fir

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