[PDF] Women and Artisanal Mining: Gender Roles and the ...
A hot, dry wind envelopes a statuesque woman as she kneels over windsifted trays of tinbearing pulverized ore in Uis, Namibia. In Bolivia, a nineyear old scrambles down a steep pit wall yet again to refill her bucket of metalrich sand. And yet another woman stokes the fire in her wood burning stove in the Philippines, releasing the mercury from dore in a poorly ventilated kitchen; .