galamseyer
n.— «At one of such invasions a 75 year old woman was arrested merely on suspicion that her son was a suspected illegal small scale miner known in Ghana as (galamseyer).» —“An Assemblyman Speaks about Living in a Community, with AngloGold Ashanti” by Benjamin Annan TWN Africa (Accra-North, Ghana) Apr. 11, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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