Gold Rush In Kédougou, Senegal: Protecting Migrants And Local Communities

Small groups of men and children work
approximately 10 hours a day, digging 10- to
15-metre shafts, using makeshift pulleys to haul
up bucketfuls of ore and pounding it to pan for
gold using highly toxic mercury. These smallscale operations, requiring roughly 10 workers,
are organized by the village chief, who is paid
a royalty on the extracted gold. Each shaft
may only yield very small amounts of gold,
which are sold to intermediaries who resell
the gold to bigger buyers.
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