Broken Hill is a small town in outback New South Wales, Australia, a pocket of civilization in the middle of the wide brown land. Flat, dry and rich in minerals, the surrounding area is a miner's paradise, a kind of geological Las Vegas of unearthly proportions. The mysteriously baptized Ginkgo is one of the "nearby" mining sites. Access is by dirt track and the trip takes a couple of hours... on a good day. In this seemingly inhospitable landscape, workers toil around the clock. Men and women spend long hours in this sun-drenched no man's land, deftly operating the massive machines that scoop, sort and transport its golden soil.
