The photograph of Sami and the Panguna Mine is a magical and mystical image that is shadowed by a dark and painful past, as the heart of the Bougainville war makes its presence felt through the rusted heavy equipment left behind when Panguna Mine closed in 1990. An old and rusted giant shovel dwarfs Sami as she revisits a contested matrilineal land where the mine once stood. A pool of aquamarine coloured water running down to the bottom of the pit is the copper sulphate solution (CuSO4), a result of the leaching process actively happening today.