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

i think this is a good place. i know, 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 then i'm looking for the best place to start that day's work. the family has come to search for going to 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. that's okay . but your turn of the the, the whole needs to be big enough to have to work. and he's still small enough to fit in more easily than an adult as the goals the family is looking for is under

the water of the 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 for you, or i know from when the machine is running on the flows through these tank and have one, i don't think the setup all through the host into the war. so the, the that, that, that, that's always been says. and then down into the pit we've dug or some sort of thing, but or anything up and down the front to compress. the is designed to pump into call. ty is that 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 holes of gold and guidelines. boy, once he sees and i always hope and pray that i'll come back up safely when i died. at that time, you know, because there happened divers who were buried when pits collapsed on them 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 mud and 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 who was the

philippines has evolved deposits of gold, some of which have yet to be tempt as the islands and the central parts of the archipelago contains the most gold. this area holds huff of the country's title deposits the indigenous peoples with digging for golds 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 minus

the guy computer. that's not the philippines is really lucky to have these gold deposits to go to be some people probably never stop looking for gold. why don't you put on so many people, especially around she or rely on it to make a letter in the family is not, but i've been doing this work for as long as i can remember. you guys and people die, but we keep going them to put it in. as long as there's old, we'll keep searching for it. what made us an, an off one get to. ready these days there was silence and self dug pits and shelves 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. the golden rule is said to be purest

. the 70 percent of gold traded in the philippines comes from mines in this region. the fluid in by dreams, the full tune, antonia families, join the search men, women, and children. according to an international n g, a thousands of children work here with the parents hoping to find a few specs of gold. the

had a problem on the tube slipped out of my mouth. i'm okay. i just feel cold when hot, so it's down there and i'm scared because he's not safe. he's still a child. the side for 1st they seem to grow up in a different environment at all up at the full time, but there's no other work here. so we accept the situation that they are going to get on top of the promot. 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 on the whole test how to field 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.

simply go in the garden, say that's the gold from the month that i collect it down there with the letters that me that's a lot. 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 dropoff still have to process it the way we have to extract to the gold to do that, they mix that collection of particles within that curie. a highly toxic metals that attacks the respiratory tract and the brain. the

now we're burning off the mercury to get it. the gold. this step is really important. need to but if we mess this up, we lose everything and it would have been for nothing. but let us put smells bad but then used to it, but it doesn't give me headaches anymore. the animal done. so we get me some water the one the of the the. 2 good evening. so what are you got for me today? oh, that's a small one. what? all right? well i think, i mean, you know, it weighs the same as

a grains of rice long. okay. one grain of rice is $65.00 cases. multiply that by 8. and you get 520 patients. oh, can you, can you find how many of you were there be no doubt by the name of 5, lima. he weighs so divided by 5. all for uber and 104 pieces. each one. 0, for $100.00 and full pay. so that's a little more than one. you're right 50. i mean, i was that and i'm we were hoping for at least $200.00 pesos each but at least now we can buy rice and some meat down. and even though it's tough then with all the mud and the digging, i think it was worth it. landing spot us. how many bullets have and i thought you'll have a share yourselves. full. 345

. think. well, thank you. evelyn santos. we'll mix the goals and i'll get with those of the other minus and then sell them on to bulk by as you move into south and then game, i don't feel guilty buying gold from children and no problem. i'll do just the indian. now it's more that i feel sorry for them metal because they shouldn't be doing that and i'll see them ending them and that i buy their goals because they need the money. now, smell for 4 inches, i feel sorry for them, but you have a duty to buy their goal because they worked so hard to get in to get up on time and for me as a buyer. and again, it's also important that i help my family now, my company to come in again. it's a win win situation for all the the, 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 the motorcycle cab to get that costs $10.00 pesos. the equivalent of $0.20 paid full 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

from has today. as i said, we're going to do reading test. i know from one by one that says teen has always the oldest in his class. the others around the 9. he's full install behind due to his constant absence. over 90, i read this one 1st off, he goes in the oh um the the sneeze. williams. mom's 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 there in the shops this at their age, they belong here in schools here. but public,

she drives them, then you need the se in the 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. i'm by. that's why it's so important that they come here, like a punk that was seen in there by that means you're not 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 petracola 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 that base the buyers and the sellers business is booming, the mainland mainly make coffee lane to get us the car. the welcome to power economy building will be for our basic doors. asking victorians together

with my husband, he is the land or the genetic uncle. and the stores during major us 18 years. 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 scenario, key system for when they get sold in they've got that done by c c, c, the choker, my grandson realtor say hi, shy, shy, so lucky. so lucky i owe everything i have to day to the gold and the mines. and we were able to build a house by land. i shan't break type of fun with my children were able to go to school and we also help other family members who we have seen the employee and not within somebody to move mine is we have the more we got

a lot of things so they don't know i'm moving, i mean self funding because i'm mining company is registered with the thirty's about of florida. the oh cool. has a license to sell. how goes to the philippines? central bank. oh man, man, man, man. man. yeah, i'm really gives me a go and be enough and show me what you've got. only 4 people them. how to color are in possession of one of these precious licenses. 9.3 grams about also bodies gold from the middleman who per to the stock from small scale minus light caught toast family thanks to her license, she can then legally re sell the gold l.

so you get $28576.00 pieces and she ends over $2500.00 heroes a month, 10 times the average wage. and the philippines, the gold she's buying here, has again come from underwater mining. this these came from the home for us or my name compress or shock sean coming from other location on one of the but on guy? yeah. do you some things go 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 they should be there fine or no worth or nothing. the children alone. but sometimes you are sometimes a child of minds for example, brings food for the father. so but what do you then say that these children are working in the mind?

someone else turn to no one. all government has them child labor with us by you know, 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. the

learning was how are you doing the forest? how's the work going? if not, then why isn't the machine operating? the sarah scene has always refused to have children working in his mind. i've got all of those things. i'm not on the authority 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. may have a splinter, we ended up reading the incentive. but if the state doesn't care, if it passes laws but doesn't enforce or implement them and then the state also bears it, share of responsibility to any implement with one another within the know the

t and minus a. and i wrote you flowers when i say you someone is thinking of you handling out as a knuckle, shady nickel homepage. and when i read my son was looking for gold under water in a shelf me here. and there was a landslide by the sign in the morning, so he was digging down in the shop, which collapsed and buried team in the mine. yeah. so i mean, i'm wondering, i know he's friends go down to but he did not know it was. matt is certainly something we dug for almost an hour to find his body by not having we took him to

the hospital and he went but he was already dead. i think the one on a pain of the honest to 7 i 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. no, but i see in a little beverly and it's mindful with him and 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. mama. and today there's nothing i can do in the animal. it gets too late to. i always tell parents not to send the 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

every yeah, around 20 minus die in this area, buried in the depths along with that dream of gold. the 800 kilometer is for the south on the island of late a. 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 to is if the whole see 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 now like one of them. i don't turn anything from hanging around at home. the none of the don't live

is searching for gold on the sea bed to have diving cylinders. just like in the swamp. they have only a plastic tube linked to a compressor of the dentist junior will send 8 hours under water today. the narrow hose is only asked, apply his safety line the he plunges to a depth of 20 meters. joining 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 gram 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 diver 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, it's a pretty risky down there of the today, the davis from late a are in luck. they found 2 grams of gold and will shift 3600 pesos between them equal to around 6 years past and the, oh my goodness. well, i'm proud of what i do because this is my people's job. if i'm 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 dentist do. near returns to the sea. he head straight

back down to the mine, to walk in the depths and search for gold the they were brought together by chance, and they root in the early ninety's and independence, free woman. and the mother of 10, in a strict patriarchy the sooner they can, they not assess team dogs has been observing the lines of how dia and hindus hayes, ever since this is lines that have been shaped by debris, tennessee of rule, and religious constraint. what he's telling me

to waste of my daughter's stuff june twin is the 2nd on d w. the a minor injury. and the a cuts on his finger. lots of steps to send almost costco given, telling his life. he lost both arms and legs talking. there are days when i want to go into the woods and scream my head off and likes that to happen. don't happen often know where he's done. now he just wants to get his old life back as much of it as he can.