Working without protective gear at the gold mine exposes them to toxic substances, including mercury and sodium cyanide.
Some of them lay a sackcloth on a slanted rack. Here, they mix the gold dust with water and splash it on the sackcloth used as a sieve to separate fine particles of the precious metal from the ore.
“If you want to get fine particles of gold, then you have to wash it with bare hands using mercury. Wearing gloves could make you lose a lot of gold,” says Stella Inzofu.
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