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Rosalind Morris

Notes on the underground — where the most desperate and impoverished scavenge for illicit gold

Business Maverick

Notes on the underground — where the most desperate and impoverished scavenge for illicit gold

By Richard Poplak

The zama zama: Informal mining ‘unlike anything else in the world’

South Africa

The zama zama: Informal mining ‘unlike anything else in the world’

By Tamsin Metelerkamp