Miners whose lives hang by a thread in search of flecks of precious metal

Rose Kerubo mixing crushed ore that contains gold using water containing mercury at one of the gold mining sites in Lolgorian, Narok County. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Driven by poverty, the gold miners of Lolgorian in Trans Mara Sub-county stop at nothing to dig out a few flecks of the precious metal.

They risk their lives and those of their children in pursuit of riches, which geologists say are in abundance in the tiny far-flung trading centre that neighbours Tanzania.