A team of small-scale miners work in a jade mine, Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar, July 18, 2014. Some miners work alone while some like this young men here work by a team in a small plot of land that is owned by their 'Lao-ban' (meaning 'Boss' in Chinese), who is often a local trader.

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A team of small-scale miners work in a jade mine, Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar, July 18, 2014. Some miners work alone while...