spoor: and we're left with thehe gaping holes in the eartrth... announuncer: ...over 3,000 employees... spoor: a and no resources to f x them, so we've got a toxic mess of an environmental disaster, social decay, a collapsing infrfrastructure--urban infrastructuture; you know, watr systems, seweragage systems, and the likeke--and you're left sitting with what looks like a post-apocalyptic n nightmare. zulu: here, , where we le, there are a lolot of abandoned minese. when a mine is abandoned, people go there and m mine for themselves. there's nothing else there is because there are no jobs. there are big mining companies, but they employ people from outside in all of that. we want the story of the artisanal miners to be heard. [man speakaking native language] zulu: so they y work the c coalr there anand take the coal and dt it here on a stotockpile and thn load it on t the sacks, and then they take it up. as you can see, it's--it's quiuite heavy. ththis is another shaft.t. the , manyny kilometerers down there o work, and when they come back, they t