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Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight lifts. They stay below ground for months at a time, armed with pistols and homemade grenades, chiseling out ore and then grinding it and extracting the gold using mercury, just as poor gold miners do at the surface.
— Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
 (book)
by Fred Pearce
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