Antamok in the Philippines is rich with gold. Tribal Igorots use pocket mines to extract gold ore from the hillsides, 1991

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Antamok in the Philippines is rich with gold. Tribal Igorots use pocket mines to extract gold ore from the hillsides. Here villagers break up the ore with hammer for processing, 1991

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