Cinzia DAmbrosi

Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain in South West China. An illegal coal mine normally run by a business man in complicity with the local sheriff. Illegal coal mines are often situated in the inner parts of mountains and very small. If accidents occur they just shut and covered as if nothing ever was running there..A coal miner outside the cave working on the coal extracted.

Normally large groups of coal miners live in the same place in the proximity of the mines. They live together sharing all the amenities. .Laoying mountains, Yushe Coal Mine.

China is one of the largest producer of coal in the world, but it has also one of the worse recorded mining conditions. To make matters worse, illegal coal mining has increased over the years making coal miners lives at even more risks. Lan Ba Coal Mine on the Laoying mountain is an example of one of the illegal coal mines. The health and safety measures in the illegal coal mines are almost no-existing.

Wangjiazhai is a coal mining village in South West China. Many of its inhabitants work with coal from digging, transporting and removal. Surface mining from an open cast mining covers large areas of the village...