Artisanal and small-scale miners often operate "freelance," sometimes paying landowners to access a site, or handing bosses a share of their ore.
Many work with little more than pickaxes and shovels and carry what they dig on their backs. Others use diggers and crushers. Often, miners use mercury to extract the gold, then turn it into semi-pure nuggets of dore (pronounced door-ray) to sell to traders.
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