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An emerald miner uses a hand held mirror with an image of an model from India after washing himself in the morning in the emerald mines above Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The labor of the mines is conducted by young men who spend a week to seven months on the side of the mountains where no women work.
October 24, 2007- Khenj, Afghanistan

An emerald miner uses a hand held mirror with an image of an model from India after washing himself in the morning in the emerald mines above Khenj, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. The labor of the mines is conducted by young men who spend a week to seven months on the side of the mountains where no women work.