Golden soil

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  Sébastien Millier, France
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  http://www.sebastienmillier.com

Golden soil

Broken Hill is a small town in outback New South Wales, Australia, a pocket of civilization in the middle of the wide brown land.
Flat, dry and rich in minerals, the surrounding area is a miner's paradise, a kind of geological Las Vegas of unearthly proportions.

The mysteriously baptized Ginkgo is one of the "nearby" mining sites.
Access is by dirt track and the trip takes a couple of hours... on a good day.

Silence.
Dust slowly dancing in the sun's golden rays is the only distraction.
Finally, the flatness is broken up by three jet black mountains and a crater.
This is Ginkgo, a man-made oasis in the desert.
In this seemingly inhospitable landscape, workers toil around the clock.
Men and women spend long hours in this sun-drenched no man's land, deftly operating the massive machines that scoop, sort and transport its golden soil.