t’s dangerous‚ often fatal‚ but illegal underground gold mining is pretty much all that sustains the economy of Lindelane‚ a sprawling township of tin shacks and shebeens near Benoni‚ to the east of Johannesburg.

Inventor and CEO of New Gold Recovery Inc., Anastasios Morfopoulos, appears to have found the holy grail of gold mining - a low cost, environmentally friendly recovery system that extracts up to 95% or more of the gold and other precious metals.