The face of Lydia Madhoro, 25, is dusted red from soil as she and her
three female colleagues take a brief lunch break. They have been working
since dawn on their gold mine in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central
Province.
Their hand-dug shaft has reached about 10m in depth, and their
conversation revolves around estimates of how much they will make from a
pile of gold-bearing excavated rocks. The ore still has to be taken to a
miller about 15km away to be crushed, after which it will be mixed with
water and mercury to separate out the gold.
http://www.irinnews.org/report/99018/women-dig-into-zimbabwe-s-male-dominated-small-scale-mining-sector
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