“I picked the stones (pieces of ore) and took them to Busia to extract gold from them. They were crushed by a machine and I used mercury and water to extract gold from the crushed stones. I sold to a middleman the gold I extracted from the stones for sh300, 000,” he says.
Three years later, Simase is now a gold mine, with about 500 artisans engaged in mining activity. The miners have dug several tunnels in the village in a desperate search for gold.
However, none of the artisans in Simase has ever extracted gold worth a kilogram two years since they started mining in the area.
Some have relocated to other mining areas in frustration. Most of the artisans sell their gold to middlemen in grams and points. The middlemen offer sh100, 000 for a gram and sh10, 000 for a point. - See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1454622/poverty-killing-gold-miners#sthash.nrErdsLC.dpuf
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