Engineer helps Mongolia’s gold diggers: "DEVELOPMENT workers do not necessarily have to come from the West. A mining expert from Zimbabwe is helping to improve the lives of small-scale miners in Mongolia.
On a small-scale mining site in the vast grasslands of Western Mongolia, around a hundred people are digging for gold. They take the ochre-colored earth and sieve it for tiny particles of the precious metal.
As in other developing, resource-rich, nations many poor people in this Central Asian country have turned to small-scale mining, because they lack alternative means of income.
The work is tough and often dangerous as well. Many mine shafts are not well secured and severe accidents can occur."
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