School children bunk classes to make gold
05 November 2016 - 15:48
At 8am‚ 13-year-old Moses (not his real name) loads soil into a phenduka‚ a gold refining machine. He mixes the soil with salt‚ washing powder‚ vinegar and water. He throws heavy metal balls‚ the size of tennis balls‚ into the rusty‚ cylindrical metal machine‚ and closes it with a tight rubber lid.
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