Gold! It is the world’s most well-known precious metal and also one of the most expensive in the world. To extract gold, one has to dig deep into the Earth’s crust, in many cases using all sorts of heavy-duty extractive industry machinery. But here in Zambia, this world’s ‘most precious’ metal has been discovered right within the surface – in the soil. You only need a simple gardening hoe to dig out gold. In Petauke’s Sasali and Sandwe areas; in Vubwi, south of Chipata; in Rufunsa and Luangwa; not to mention the Copperbelt Province itself, and, now in Mufumbwe; gold is plenty! Farmers are literally cultivating their crops in gold fields. If we are to be too explicit, we could...