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Gold diggers' dalliance with death dates back to 1930s

Gold mining in Migori, 1980s. [File, Standard]

The fatal attraction. Like a moth flying to irresistible warmth and its destruction, that is what gold-digging has been to impoverished peasants and large scale miners.

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