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| Illegal miners search for gold on the mountain of Tumpang Pitu in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia on November 21, 2009. The mine has been in operation since June 2009 and local villagers have began protesting because the waste produced by the mine is polluting the environment. (REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas) |
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| Molten gold and flux used to remove impurities glows red hot as it is melted in an induction melting machine at Dvir & Stoler Refining in New York, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg) |
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| Robert Stoler pours molten gold into an ingot mold at Dvir & Stoler Refining in New York, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg) |
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| A Japanese girl admires a gold model named "Wishing to shooting stars" at a gold and silver craft exhibition in Tokyo on October 23, 2009. The 30cm-tall, 15kg pure gold artifact is worth 130 million yen (US $1.3 million). (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) |
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| Bulgarian archaeologist Veselin Ignatov holds a gold-plated silver cup with an image of the Greek God of love Eros, found at a Thracian mound near the village of Karanovo, Bulgaria on November 17, 2009. A team of archaeologists led by Ignatov found a chariot, two silver cups, golden rings and jewelry, clay and glass artifacts dating back to the first century A.D. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov) |
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| An illegal miner pans for gold at the mountain of Tumpang Pitu in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia on November 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas) |
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