Illegal gold miners go all out for South Africa's gold as prices hover near record highs
The surge in gold prices has turned Durban Deep, a decaying former mining suburb west of Johannesburg, into a chaotic battlefield of hunger-driven digging, armed stand-offs, and nonstop movement through abandoned land. Bloomberg reports that four men stand at a muddy pond once used as a backyard pool and pour sludge onto a towel, hoping [...]
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