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The dare-devil tactics of Kakamega small-scale miners in search of gold

Aggrey Mulayi, a gold miner enters a shaft in Rosterman, Kakamega County. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

It is 10am and as he swings back and forth on a rope into a 150-foot mine shaft, a spotlight perched on his forehead, Aggrey Mulayi is not sure he will come out alive. But he remains hopeful.

Mulayi remembers how many of his fellow artisanal gold miners went into such pits and did not make it out alive. But he has to do it. After all, gold mining is the only source of income he knows. This is what he has done all his life.

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