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Every year, countries across Africa lose out as billions of $ worth of gold dug up by small scale miners is smuggled abroad. Can the establishment of refineries across the continent stem this flow? Peter Hobson + I examine the trend reuters.com/article/us-gol…

Reuters Reuters Investigates Zandi Shabalala @mcneill.bsky.social Tim Cocks In August, Peter Hobson landed a great exclusive showing how gold bars fraudulently stamped with logos of major refineries were being slipped into the global market reuters.com/article/us-gol…

Smuggled gold, mercury poisoning, counterfeits, Islamists and a chaotic new refining industry in Africa – read all our Reuters series here ==>

Swiss refinery Metalor long purified gold from the Andes to sell to banks, watchmakers, fine jewelers and electronics companies. In early 2018 the refinery stopped taking the artisanal gold. What went wrong? Read my report with Mitra Taj Peter Hobson reut.rs/2InltiS