South Africa’s illicit gold network booms as prices climb nearly 60%

The surge in gold prices has turned Durban Deep, a decaying former mining suburb west of Johannesburg, into a chaotic battlefield of hunger-driven digging, armed stand-offs, and nonstop movement through abandoned land. Bloomberg reports that four men stand at a muddy pond once used as a backyard pool and pour sludge onto a towel, hoping […] source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/south-africas-illicit-gold-network-booms/