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What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
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Andilamena, a mining town north of the lake. At 110km from Ambatondrazaka, it takes about 8h in the infamous taxi-brousses to get there, the road is not paved.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0149024.jpg
Andilamena, a mining town north of the lake. At 110km from Ambatondrazaka, it takes about 8h in the infamous taxi-brousses to get there, the road is not paved.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0149025.jpg
Andilamena, a mining town north of the lake. At 110km from Ambatondrazaka, it takes about 8h in the infamous taxi-brousses to get there, the road is not paved.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148970.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148973.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148975.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148977.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148979.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148981.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148983.jpg
Andilamena's main street.
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148985.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148986.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148987.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148988.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148995.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148996.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148998.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148999.jpg
Almost all gemstore resale stores are closed. Only a few small stalls are still active, they are tended by Malagasy people, the Vazaha (Malagasy name for foreigners) do not stay in town during the recessions.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148882.jpg
Dalal (56yo) is the president of the association H.MPA.VATO.A, an association for mineworkers of "informal" mines, i.e. illegal. The purpose of the association is to educate the miners and act from time to time in case of conflict with the bosses vazaha.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148886.jpg
A miner presents his stones, kept in a empty pastic rum bottle. It is right besides the Zahamena national park.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148887.jpg
Rice pad in the sunrise, on the way to an abandoned mine site. The vast majority of people are rice farmers.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148888.jpg
Rice pad in the sunrise, on the way to an abandoned mine site. The vast majority of people are rice farmers.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148889.jpg
Fixing a makeshift bridge to allow the motorbike to go through. After an hour on the bike there is still a couple more hours walk to get to the mining site.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148890.jpg
Fording a river on the way to the mine.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148891.jpg
Fording a river on the way to the mine.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148892.jpg
Tavy (slash-and-burn traditional cultivation technique) is the number one cause for deforestation in Madagascar.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148893.jpg
Tavy (slash-and-burn traditional cultivation technique) is the number one cause for deforestation in Madagascar.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148894.jpg
Tavy (slash-and-burn traditional cultivation technique) is the number one cause for deforestation in Madagascar.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148895.jpg
Tavy (slash-and-burn traditional cultivation technique) is the number one cause for deforestation in Madagascar.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148896.jpg
Andasiakondro, abandoned gem mine...
One hour of taxi-moto and two hours walk from Andilamena is a mining site that seems to be abandoned. But a small community of 18 people continues to work and live there. They baptized the place Andasiakondro (literally: camping banana) and that's all that remains of a place that sheltered up to more than 10,000 people at its peaks of activity.
The surrounding environmental destruction is still very visible: deforestation to provide materials and allow crops, with traditional tavy burns which are so harmful, but also water pollution.
One hour of taxi-moto and two hours walk from Andilamena is a mining site that seems to be abandoned. But a small community of 18 people continues to work and live there. They baptized the place Andasiakondro (literally: camping banana) and that's all that remains of a place that sheltered up to more than 10,000 people at its peaks of activity.
The surrounding environmental destruction is still very visible: deforestation to provide materials and allow crops, with traditional tavy burns which are so harmful, but also water pollution.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148897.jpg
Andasiakondro, abandoned gem mine...
One hour of taxi-moto and two hours walk from Andilamena is a mining site that seems to be abandoned. But a small community of 18 people continues to work and live there. They baptized the place Andasiakondro (literally: camping banana) and that's all that remains of a place that sheltered up to more than 10,000 people at its peaks of activity.
The surrounding environmental destruction is still very visible: deforestation to provide materials and allow crops, with traditional tavy burns which are so harmful, but also water pollution.
One hour of taxi-moto and two hours walk from Andilamena is a mining site that seems to be abandoned. But a small community of 18 people continues to work and live there. They baptized the place Andasiakondro (literally: camping banana) and that's all that remains of a place that sheltered up to more than 10,000 people at its peaks of activity.
The surrounding environmental destruction is still very visible: deforestation to provide materials and allow crops, with traditional tavy burns which are so harmful, but also water pollution.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148898.jpg
Andasiakondro, abandoned gem mine...
One hour of taxi-moto and two hours walk from Andilamena is a mining site that seems to be abandoned. But a small community of 18 people continues to work and live there. They baptized the place Andasiakondro (literally: camping banana) and that's all that remains of a place that sheltered up to more than 10,000 people at its peaks of activity.
The surrounding environmental destruction is still very visible: deforestation to provide materials and allow crops, with traditional tavy burns which are so harmful, but also water pollution.
One hour of taxi-moto and two hours walk from Andilamena is a mining site that seems to be abandoned. But a small community of 18 people continues to work and live there. They baptized the place Andasiakondro (literally: camping banana) and that's all that remains of a place that sheltered up to more than 10,000 people at its peaks of activity.
The surrounding environmental destruction is still very visible: deforestation to provide materials and allow crops, with traditional tavy burns which are so harmful, but also water pollution.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148878.jpg
In Andasiakondro there are still 18people living (and mining). it used to accommodate more than 10.000 miners.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148899.jpg
A sieve for cleaning and sorting gems from the soil.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148900.jpg
In Andasiakondro there are still 18people living (and mining). it used to accommodate more than 10.000 miners.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148901.jpg
In Andasiakondro there are still 18people living (and mining). it used to accommodate more than 10.000 miners.
Here a miner prepares coffee powder.
Here a miner prepares coffee powder.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148917.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148918.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148919.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148920.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148921.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148922.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148923.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148924.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148925.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148926.jpg
Miners dig the soil and extract blocks that they will put in the river to get the stones to sort out. Their equipment is often metal pieces they give to a mechanics to transform into picks.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148927.jpg
Jules is living in Andasiakondro with his wife and two kids. He is 31 year old. He is a miner since 1999, he was a farmer before.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148902.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148903.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148904.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148905.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148906.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148907.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148908.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148909.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148910.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148911.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148912.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148913.jpg
Blocks of soil are sorted and immersed in the water of the neighbouring river in order to separate stones from the gangue of clay or other type of soil. The pebbles are then washed and scrutinized hoping to discover an interesting stone.
What's left after a gem mining rush?
Arnaud De Grave / Le Pictorium
LePictorium_0148914.jpg
View of the tavy (slash-and-burn) on one of the still active mining site. About 15 people still work it.
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