Adolescents adding mercury to minerals to extract gold in Santa Filomena

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The quimbaletero is mostly busy with seesawing the plank to grind the ore. He is also responsible for adding the ore, the water and the mercury to the bath. Occasionally he feels, by hand, if the ore has been ground sufficiently.The boy with the blue shirt is the quimbaletero.

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