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Color Picture - 3rd prize
Digging for gold.
Digging for gold: A digger climbs out of a deep excavation with a bag of dirt he delivers to panners who extract the gold. Diggers earn 25 US$ a day -five times an average laborer's wage in Brazil- and panners make as much as 50 US$ a day.
Digging for gold: At the rate of more than 600 US$ an ounce, these three gold nuggets are worth at least 10,000 US$. As collector's items they may bring even higher prices.
General Picture - 1st prize
Mirella Ricciardi
01 January, 1980
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1981 Photo Contest
George M. Wedding
Alain Mingam
Andrew Hosie
François Lochon
Eric Piper
Mike Wells
William Campbell
Wolfgang Lummer
Ovie Carter
Lennart Isaksson
Björn H. Larsson Ask
Rene Leveque
Ronald G. Bell
Gabriel Dominique Duval
John Downing
John Everett
Joseph Marquette
Sergei Guneyev
Werner Gartung
Henri Bureau
Zvi Roger
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