These days I look at this pair of earrings and all other gold jewellery in a different light. I wonder if this beautiful, intricately designed gold chain and all my other gold jewellery started life from a galamsey pit. Was the gold which was used to make the ring on my finger dug up from the pit that has turned the River Pra into the mercury-filled muddy brown mulch that struggles to work its way through what was once a dense forest?
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