Salt workers breaking with wooden crowbars salt blocks from the salt crust of Lake Assale, near Hamadela, Danakil Depression, Afar region, Ethiopia

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Traditional mining of salt at the Assale salt lake. Afar salt workers, called Focolo, breaking with wooden crowbars salt blocks from the salt crust of Lake Assale, near Hamadela, Danakil Depression, Afar Region, Ethiopia

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Size: 4928px × 3280px
Location: Hamadela, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
Photo credit: © GFC Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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