Ghana: If I Die, I Die For Gold - Galamsey Operator

Death, he said no longer scares him and his colleagues engaged in galamsey activities at Obuasi, one of the mining sites at Gbane named after the country’s largest mining city, Obuasi, in the Ashanti region.

“A lot of our colleagues have died from collapsing pits here. I cannot tell the number but I know that death is now normal to all of us here,” he said in Taleng, the dialect of the Talensi people.

“We sometimes pull the dead aside and continue the work because the work itself is a ‘do and die affair,” Boutique added.
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