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Sinkholes and a Ravaged Landscape. The Terrifying Consequences of Illegal Gold Mining

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As gold prices soared, illegal gold mining activity in abandoned mine shafts in working-class neighborhoods around Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, South Africa, grew dramatically. The consequences are now frightening, with the landscape littered with sinkholes.

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