Nestled
in a former cocoa-farming region in southwestern Ghana, the town of
Prestea boasts more than 150 small-scale gold mines in the backyards of
abandoned farms. The town, with a population of about 35,000, also sits
covered in permanent smog, a red dust that stains white goats crimson.
It is the result of lethal mercury, on which miners all over Ghana rely
to refine their gold. In Prestea death from mercury poisoning is routine
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