On a really good day, you can make R3 000. But on other days, you will toil in the blazing heat or in the bitter cold weather, crushing rocks, only to go home empty-handed.
It is an illegal operation, but out of desperation, a group of men and women expose themselves and their babies to highly toxic mercury daily in pursuit of gold. And this illegal mining operation is carried out in the open, along the busy Main Reef Road in Roodepoort.
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