Apprentice in Start Your Own Gold Mine program practicing how to mount metal parts of the pickaxe onto its handles

The quality of pickaxes in East Africa is terrible. They are sold in parts, metal pickaxe part is sold separate from wooden handles and neither the metal part nor the wooden handles are all the same, so they have to be prepared and mounted together before any small scale mining work can start.

On this video one may see one of our apprentices learning and practicing on how to mount metal parts of the pickaxe onto its wooden handles.