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Rights group: Filipino child miners risk lives in gold mines

Section: Daily Dispatches

This is what happens when gold price suppression makes it impossible for easily regulatable corporations to mine gold responsibly in accordance with worker-safety and environmental-protection regulations. Wildcatters go into the business without any concern for protecting people or the environment.

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By Teresa Cerojano
Associated Press
via MSNBC, New York
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine government has failed to protect thousands of children, some as young as 9 years old, who risk their lives by working in illegal, small-scale gold mines under terrifying conditions, a human rights group said today.

Human Rights Watch's report said the children work in unstable 25-meter (80-foot) deep pits or under water along coastal shores or rivers, processing gold with mercury, a toxic metal that can cause irreversible health damage. Those who dive for gold stay underwater for several hours at a time in 10-meter-deep (30-foot-deep) shafts, receiving air through a tube attached to an air compressor.

The New York-based group says it interviewed 135 people, including 65 child miners from 9 to 17 years of age, in eastern Camarines Norte and Masbate provinces in 2014 and 2015. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rights-group-filipino-child-miners-risk-lives...



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