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Illegal Miners, Ghana
Photograph by Randy Olson

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Fevered by hopes of striking it rich, illegal miners claw sacks of "money stone"—gold ore—from the Pra River in Ghana. Their toil feeds the world’s hunger for gold, and leaves a ruined landscape in its wake.

See more photographs from the January 2009 feature story "Gold."

译文:

非法矿工,加纳
摄影:Randy Olson

本月每日一图的主题是：国家地理杂志专题

被暴富的希望冲昏了头脑的非法矿工，紧抓着一麻袋“值钱的石头”——金矿——在加纳的普拉河边。他们的辛劳填补着这个世界对于金子的贪婪，也给将来清醒过来的世人留下了一幅破坏殆尽的景象。