A worker, wearing a face mask to protect against dust particles, pauses
while arranging freshly cut stones at a quarry in the desert of Minya,
southern Egypt on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Around 45,000 people work
in an estimated 1,500 quarries, digging out stones that later will be
used in construction or powdered to be used by pharmaceutical and
ceramic companies inside Egypt and abroad.
