“Mercury might as well be currency with them,” Nhlengetwa said. “There’s no way those guys can source that. There’s absolutely no way, so who’s giving it to them?”
The use of mercury is also one of illegal mining’s many health concerns. Deadly cave-ins constitute another major hazard, as zamas often mine load-bearing pillars in underground mines in the seismically active Witwatersrand Basin.
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