Freelance miners scramble down a hill at a mine in Hpakant, in the heart of Myanmar’s jade country, to scavenge for jade stones. Freelance miners scramble down a hill at a mine in Hpakant, in the ...

A team of miners work in a jade mine. Some miners work alone while some like this young men here work by a team in a small plot land that is owned by their 'Lao-ban' (meaning 'Boss' in Chinese), ...

HPAKANT, Myanmar (Reuters) - Tin Tun picked all night through teetering heaps of rubble to find the palm-sized lump of jade he now holds in his hand. He hopes it will make him a fortune. It's happened ...

Jade pickers cover the side of the mountain searching for stones after mining trucks have dumped their debris. This is backbreaking work and much of the ground is unstable. Credit: Hkaw Myaw Subscribe ...

Miners search for jade stones at a mine dump at a Hpakant jade mine in Kachin state, Burma Credit: Photo: Reuters Using heavy earth-excavators and explosives, miners have been tearing into Burma's ...