Mutsekwa earns US$10 per day from extracting gold from the ore, a fortune that many find elusive in Zimbabwe's cash-strapped economy.
The job is tiresome and dangerous, but she has developed a thick skin in order to fend for her five children following the death of her husband in 2010.
Gold-panners are forced to use hazardous substance like cyanide and mercury; these chemicals are lethal.
Mutsekwa uses cyanide to dissolve gold and separate it from the ore.
The Financial Gazette's Companies & Markets (C&M) visited her workplace last week and spoke to artisanal miners at Wanderer Mine where a gold rush has ensued; they're erecting makeshift houses with no proper ablution facilities.
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