Nazye Husein, 47, dying the hair of her neighbor Ayshe Mustafa, 25, in the village of Dazhdovnik, next to Ada Tepe. Nazye and Ayshe are dayworkers and barely make ends meet, but they still spurn the job offers of the mining company. “We have our land, we have children, we have a house – where should we go if the mine opens?” asks Nazye. “We’d prefer to grow tobacco, not dig for gold.” (Image by Dimiter Kenarov)