announcer: welelcome to optimum coal, a company that combines productivity... spoor: captured by gangsters, they looted the rehabilitatition fans andnd walked away. you kno, the mines closed, thousands of pepeople lost their jobs.... announcer: we believe in enenriching the lives of our employees and enhancing values... spspoor: and we're left with the gapingng holes in n the earth.h. announcer: ...over 3,000 employees... spoor: and no resources to fix them, so we've got a toxic mess of an environmentatal disaster, social decay, a collapsing infrastructure--urban infrastrtructure; you knowow, wr systems, sewerage e systems, and ththe like--and you'rere left sitting with w what looks like a post-apocalyptic nigightmare. zulu: here, where wewe live, the are a lot of ababandoned mines. when a mine is abandoned, people gogo there and mine forr themseselves. there's nothininge there is because there are noo jobs. there are big mining companies, but they employ people from outsidide in a of that. we want the story of the artisanal miners to be heard. [man speaking na