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the family always heads out together leaving early in the morning. after traveling through mangrove success, the minutes that boat into swamps just north of central philippines.

the, i think this is a good place. let me take that the to helio ramos is accompanied by his 13 year old son, how to his 15 year old nephew and dropoff and 2 of his cousins the, this is okay, come this way. we can fit through here and i'm looking for the best place to stop the day's work. the family has come to search for go with a book of what we found some here in this area before. so we're hoping there's some

in this book to the whole, dig a bit more over there. okay . kind of your turn of the the whole needs to be big enough for her to work and he's still small enough to fit in more easily than an adult. as the goal, the family is looking for is under the water. mario,

come on stock. why is it not working with the compressor, pcc it supplies the person going on the water with their so that they can die for longer and it's a boy, oh, i know from the machine is running on the flows through these tank itself on a to thank the setup all through the host into the war. so the, the that, that, that does always and it says log in and then down into the pit we've dug or some sort of thing but or anything up into the subject. compress it is designed to pump it into call tires. but here it will allow high to to breeze under was holding the small tube in his mouth. he can stay in the pit for hours and collect much from the bottom mode that will hopefully contain caustic goals of gold

and guidelines. boy one p c. and i always hope and pray that i'll come back up safely when i died at that them, you know, because there happened diverse who were buried when pits collapse and i never made it back out. and that's the new comic. but once i'm down there, it's pitch black. now i can only find my way with my hand out of a messy then if you my, i'm really scared of being buried by the mother. i'm not the one on because if you're lucky, you come back up. but if not, you die down there with no one else with the

. the philippines has a vast deposits of gold, some of which have yet to be tapped as the islands and the central parts of the archipelago contain the most gold. this area holds huff as the country's title deposits the indigenous peoples with digging for gold. here in the 16th century, already, even before the stats of spanish colonial rule, the gold rushes continued ever since. the state mining companies here have stopped their operations owing to a lack of funds that machinery is no longer in use, but many of that work has continued to dig on their own. usually in unsafe small scale mines. the

guy competing for you, that's not a philippines. is really lucky to have these gold deposits going to be somebody will probably never stop looking for gold. why don't you put on so many people, especially around to rely on it to make a letter? and if i find the a lot when i've been doing this work for as long as i can remember, i mean, you guys think people die, but we keep going. going to put it in. as long as there's oh, we'll keep searching for it. what made us an odd one give me the pc. ready these days there was thousands of south doug, pits and shelf. it's in this region. they operate without any form of government regulation. most of the digging here happens on the move to because it's in the river bed that the golden rule is said to be purest.

the 70 percent of gold trade it in the philippines comes from mines in this region. the know it in by dreams of 14 antonia families joined the search men, women, and children. according to an international n g of thousands of children work here with the parents hoping to find a few specs of gold. the

had a problem on the tube slip out of my mouth. i'm okay. i just feel cold when hot, so it's down there. i'm skid because he's not safe. he's still a child. the satisfied for 1st they seem to grow up in a different environment at all for the full time, but there's no other work here, so we accept the situation by i'm going to be doing something different. you know what i'm doing this so that we have something to eat tomorrow. and so that i can go to school guy. during the 2 hours, he spent tons of all to hot toe felt dozens of sex with much which his father. he's up to the surface. they have to sift through this to find the gold particles

in the garden. say that's the gold from the month that i collect it down there with the letters that i me that's a lot with the one. i mean guys, high toes working day is no say over yet before they can sell the gold. he and his cousin and drop off still have to process it. literally, we have to extract to the gold to do that, they mix that collection of particles with mercury, a highly toxic metal that attacks the respiratory tract on the brain.

now we're burning off the mercury to get at the gold this step. it's really important me to wonder if we mess this up. we lose everything and it would have been for nothing. but let us put smells bad but i'm used to it, but it doesn't give me headaches anymore. done. we get me some water the front of the of the the good evening. so what are you got for me today? oh, that's a small one. when not all the manual, it weighs the same as

a grains of rice. okay. one grain of rice of 65 cases. multiply that by 8 and you get 520 patients. oh do you need them? you find how many of you were there be no doubt by the name of 5 numa. he buys so divided by 5 all for uber and $104.00 pace us each one. 0 for $100.00 and full pay. so that's a little more than one year, right? $59.00 was added. um we were hoping for at least $200.00 pesos each month at least now we can buy rice and some meet that. and even though it's tough, then it with all the mud and the digging, i think it was worth it. and i mean, by the time it was up and i saw a phone, you'll have to share yourselves full 345, think. well,

thank you table. evelyn santos will mix the goals and i'll get with those of the other minus and then sell them on to bulk by as you move in the south and then i don't feel guilty buying cold from children. no, no, no, the just the in the now it's more that i feel sorry for them metal. they shouldn't be doing that. let's see. the by their goal because they need the money now. now they're going to start to feel sorry for them. but you have a duty to buy their goals because they worked so hard to get it in a get up on time. and for me as a buyer. again, it's also important that i help my family now. my company they come in and it's a win win situation for all the patio and i'm calling the

my mom, dad. i'm going twice a week when he's not with king how to goes to school. it's free in the philippines . but in the motorcycle cab to get that costs $10.00 pesos, the equivalent of $0.20 paid for with the money he got for the gold the day before and then that over i feel good when i go to school because i learned a lot of it. my favorite subject is math because i like counting and arithmetic the

past today. as i said, we're going to do reading test. i know. well, one way why that says teen has to is the oldest in his class. the others around the 9. he's full install behind due to his constant absence over 90 degrees. this one says off he goes in the of the, i mean, really in my been 6 of the children in the school work in the gold mines in the fact it makes me sad to know that when the children are missing during the shots at their age, they belong here in schools here, but public, she drives them,

then you need to see in their system. but it's very important that these children come to school because this is where they can do the future. with the school leaving certificates, they can choose a good career. but if they don't go to school, because they will continue to work in the mind slices because they haven't learned anything else. and i'm by. that's why it's so important that they come here like a bug that was seen in a by that the reason i like going to school, but sometimes mom doesn't have enough money to send me here on campus, but i would like to finish school so that i can fulfill my dream and no longer have to mine gold. when i grow up, i want to join the army, the 350 kilometers from the capital. one town in this province has become

a hub for the gold trade protocol and the name carla means canals they go and refers to the gold minus 45000 people here and make their living from the trade 3 quarters of the population. and so base the buyers and the seller's business is booming. the my lean, make coffee, get us the cups will come to power. economy building will be for our basic doors. asking victorians together with my husband. he is the one or the genetic uncle,

and be stores during may term us 18 years. and when did you buy the policy or 18 years asked when did you come to learn the this i mean by and here in our town it to come. ok. my grandchildren, this cargo t system for when they get old and if get that done done by c c, c, the choker, my grandson realtor, see hi, be shy, shy, so lucky. so lucky i owe everything i have to day to the gold and the mines once again thought we were able to build a house by land. i shan't break type of fun and my children were able to go to school and we also help other family members who we have 60 employee and then

somebody to move mine is we have the more we got a lot of things. so the move and i me so funding info and because hum mining company is registered with the thirty's. a bed florida. the o co has a license to sell. how goes to the philippines? central bank man, man, man, man, i'm any i'm any gives me we'll go and be enough and show me what you've got and the full people them. how to cala are in possession of one of these precious licenses. 9.3 and the about also buys gold from the middle men who procure the stock from small scale minus like high toes family. thanks to her license. she can then legally re sell the gold l. so you get

28576 pieces of. she ends over $2500.00 heroes a month, 10 times the average wage in the philippines, the gold she's buying here has again come from underwater. mining. disease came from the home press are mining from brass or sack sean coming from other location on one of the by the one guy. yeah. do you sometimes which comes from tv? oh no. no no. how can you be sure? i don't know because uh the rest of my name such as it should be there fine or no more thing, not the children she allowed, but sometimes sometimes a child might, for example, bring food for the father. and so that's what do you then say that these children are working in the mind each someone else turn to no one?

all government has them child labor by the government. the everyone in protocol as seems to be against child labor. but hardly anyone is really doing anything about it. one of the few who is outspoken on the subject is a man who spends his own childhood mining for gold to allow this is my mine here at the my employees are at work right now. the moment the whole hon several scene desco stuff, he'd diving for gold when he was 12 years old. but he managed to leave his old life behind these days, he's a local politician with his own mining company. good

morning. how are you doing? almost how's the work going? they've not been well, but why isn't the machine operating the sarah scene has always refused to have children working in his mind. i've got all of us listing for god on the authorities. should investigate these situations and evaluate whether parents are pushing their children to work. yeah, no, we've done that. if so, you know, the parents are responsible and should be punished, misplaced, we ended up reading the federal incentive. but if the state doesn't care, if it passes laws but doesn't enforce or implement them and will be at no. and the state also bears it, share of responsibility to implement equipment. and i was sending over

the i got t and minus on life and wrote you flowers. when i say someone is thinking of you coming out of time, knuckle shading nickel, i'm afraid of him when i get my son was looking for gold under water in a shelf near here. and there was a land slide by the sign and he was digging down in the shop, which collapsed and buried. came in the mud line. yeah. so i mean, i'm wondering, i know he's friends go down to but he did not, and i was mad as by myself. oh, we dug for almost an hour to find his body by now we took him to the hospital,

but he was already dead. so i think it went on i think the on this to southern uh is it goes mine from carla just like his own father did with him. he took his young son into the mines and told him to die for gold. nope, i see in a little beverly, it's mindful to someone if i hadn't taught him, he would never have learned how to search for gold under water and i would i left him a go and that was what killed him found my mama and today there's nothing i can do in the animal gets too late to i always tell parents not to send their children into the mines because that cost my son his life a moment, then it's very hard to lose a child. i can't even put my feelings into words. so this is the, every yeah, around 20 minus die in this area,

buried in the depths along with that dream of gold, the 800 kilometers for the south on the island to play 2 of the fathers. there are also teaching that children to pursue the same dream. for the past 3 years, 14 year old dennis dounia has spent every weekend diving in the world war 2 as if the whole sea i'm a bit nervous because i'm going back to work the mind that i put on the rest of the week. i go to school. i like only my money here. i don't turn anything from hanging around at home. the none of the divers searching for gold on the sea bed have diving cylinders. just like in the

swamp, they have only a plastic to blink to a compressor. dennis dounia will spend 8 hours under water today. the narrow hose is his own, the supply, his safety line, the he plunges to a depth of 20 meters, the joining of the davis, the

little ones back already. and he's brought some sacks. the each sack weighs the t t lows with an average of 15 sacks per day. they hope to find one graham of gold. the may seem a single, it would be 9. that's what junior is doing as impressive as a be that i know i'm not a good driver and that, but he's a master at it because his father taught him so that he could help support the

family. and then i don't know if i'd bring my son, so pretty risky down there. today the dive is from late a are in luck. they found 2 grams of gold and we'll share a 3600 pesos between them equal to around 6 years past and the, oh my goodness. i am proud of what i do because this is my people's job. if you proud, proud when it's how we make a living, we have a one of the of do a short break in the fresh air. dennis junior returns to the sea. he head straight

back down to the mine to walk in the depths and search for gold. the can you see is what old cars tires have to do with the production. here's a hands on the real media. watch now on youtube. why do humming does not get drunk. why do gravitational waves squeeze all bodies? how much water do we need to put a stop hans?

praying for help find beyond fis gets much on dw science, and i'll take 10 of the a minor injury and may a cuts on his finger, lots of substance and almost cost deal ventilating his life. he lost both arms and legs. is the target. there are days when i want to go into the woods and ski my head off and live. they do happen. don't happen to also know where he's done. now he just wants to get his old life back as much of it as he can.