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The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

Here, in the “town of gold,” things couldn’t be better as the price of the precious metal continues to hit new heights.

The rock needed to be powdered so we could get to all the gold inside it. This was a time-consuming job because we needed a very fine powder — much finer than even sand. (We wore out several ...