This paper introduces a gender angle to the growing body of literature on the legacies of mining. It shows that gender-selective roles in informal artisanal and small-scale mining expose women's bodies to the worst health effects. These are then transmitted generationally to the biological function of child-bearing. Women's invisible—and often unpaid labors—relegate them to the periphery of informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining, strip them of their agency, and burden them with the nastiest of legacy effects, that of generational harm to unborn babies and fetuses, who suffer physical and mental deformities and disabilities. To show how mining legacies are gendered and embodied, this paper presents a case of a gold mining site in West Lombok, Indonesia, considered one of the mercury “hot spots” of the world. The paper contributes to the literature on mining legacies by pointing out the gender-selective and embodied nature of mining legacies.

本文从性别角度介绍了越来越多的关于采矿遗产的文献。它表明，非正式手工和小规模采矿中的性别选择性角色使妇女的身体受到最严重的健康影响。然后，这些基因会代代传递给生育的生物学功能。妇女的隐形——而且往往是无偿劳动——将她们置于非正式手工和小规模金矿开采的边缘，剥夺她们的代理权，并使她们承受最恶劣的遗产影响，即对未出生婴儿和胎儿的世代伤害，遭受身体和精神上的畸形和残疾。为了展示采矿遗产是如何性别化和体现的，本文以印度尼西亚西龙目岛的金矿场为例，该场被认为是世界上的汞“热点”之一。