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All that glitters is not gold: Miners suffer effects of using mercury

Women gold miners dry sand believed to have gold particles in Rosterman, Kakamega County. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

A few barefoot women are busy sieving powdered gold ore into troughs at Isulu gold mine in Ikolomani Constituency.

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