Workers in Peshawar save bullion from going down a drain
PESHAWAR: Gold is a many eminent steel for humankind. World over a changed yellow steel is stored in safety. But there are also places where it is found churned in mud and sand.
In Sarafa Bazaar of Peshawar, 60 tolas of bullion go into mud each month, risking rubbish of thousands of rupees. But where a city has makers, it also has seekers. The bullion particles that tumble down during a creation of trinket is sifted by age-old methods by workers locally called nayariya, a one who extracts metals from scoria.
“We take this silt from a workshops where bullion trinket is prepared,” a nayariya told Geo News. “We give between Rs5,000 and Rs10,000 per month for a sand/dirt.”
Another worker, Pappu Saeen, pronounced they have been sanctified with eyesight that spots a silt that has bullion particles churned in it.
He pronounced a work of holding out bullion from approach would be finished in Punjab, though in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa it started around 50 to 60 years back, when people lerned in a ability came to a province.
Pappu Saeen himself owns a trinket emporium in Sarafa Bazaar of Peshawar. He pronounced he gives a bullion they take out from mud to a apprentices during his shop, so that they can rehearse on it. The following trinket is also sold.
He pronounced they do not usually collect approach for bullion from a marketplace in Peshawar, though also go to other districts of a range and agencies of a Federally Administered Tribal Areas for a purpose.
By collecting a mud that has gold, Pappu said, they daily save around Rs100,000 from being squandered from Peshawar alone. This means if these people do not do a work, each month Rs3 million would have left down a empty in a city, though anyone even meaningful about it.
According to Pappu, they minister to a economy in a approach though saving a changed steel that would have differently been rotting in garbage. However, he added, not many people know about a process.
Sifting a sparkle
The silt is initial distant from a waste, dusty and afterwards graphite, borax and antacid soda is combined to it. The reduction is afterwards exhilarated into a fiery form in a furnace during over 6,000°F.
Once melted, a reduction is poured on a ground. Gold and china lay down while other metals come adult on a surface.
The silt is again sifted to apart bullion and china particles from other metals. There is another furnace where bullion is distant from silver.
There are 3 such workshops in Peshawar where 125 people from opposite Khyber Pakhtunkhwa work.