Illegal Miner Deaths
In late May to early June 2009 63 illegal miners died in a Free State, South Africa mine owned by Harmony Gold.
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—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
“Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
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Of deaths and entrances ...”
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