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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. i

think this is a good place. let me take that to hey leo ramos is accompanied by his 13 year old son high to his 15 year old nephew and draft and 2 of his cousins. the this is okay, come this way. we can fit through here the looking for the best place to stop that day's work. the family has come to search for go a book up. well, 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 . for the year, turn 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 a my income 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 dive for longer and it's a boy. oh, i know once the machine is running on the flows through these tank halfway through the setup, all through the hose into the war. so the, the that, that, that, that's always been says. and then down into the pit we've dug or something but or bring anything up. and such a compressor is designed to pump into call tires that here it will allow high. so to breeds 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, once he sees and i always hope and pray that i'll come back up safely when i died at that them even now because there have been divers who are buried when pits collateral and i never made it back out and i've been in comics. but once i'm down there, it's a huge black. now i can only find my way with my hand out of openness and 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 and think. but if not that less you die down there. no 11 with the

. ready ringback ready the philippines has of off 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 hall since the countries total 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 mines

the guy computer. so the philippines is really lucky to have these gold deposits to go to the and some people probably never stop looking for gold. why don't you put on so many people, especially around here, rely on it to make a living. if i finally a lot, but i've been doing this work for as long as i can remember. i mean, you guys think people die, but we keep going and put it in as long as there's oh, we'll keep searching for it. what made it as an odd one get to visit a pc. ready these days there was silence and self 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 sits 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 of 14 antonia families joined the search men, women, and children. according to an international n g of thousands of children, what care 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 hotter winds down there, i'm scared because he's not safe. he's still a child. that's the, that's my task. i'd prefer for him 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 having to be honest, you know what i'm doing this so that we have something to eat tomorrow. and so that i can go to school. during the 2 hours, he spend tons of all attempts 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

in the garden. said that's the gold from the month that i collect it down there with the 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. literally, we have to extract the gold to do that. they mix that collection of particles within that curie. a highly toxic metal that attacks the respiratory tract and the brain. the

now we're burning off the mercury to get the gold. this step is really important need to what 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. never done. we get me some water to the front of the or 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 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 the base. so divided by 5, all for you version to $104.00 piece us each one. 0 for $100.00 and the full pay. so that's a little more than one year, right? $59.00. was that and um we were hoping for at least $200.00 pesos each month at least now we can buy rice and some meet so that even though it's tough then it with all the mud and the digging. so i think it was worth it landing spot us. how many bullets have and i saw a phone, you'll have a share yourselves. full 345 main. well,

thank you evelyn santos will mix the goals and i'll get with those of the other minus and then sell them on to bulk buy as your move in the south and then game. i don't feel guilty buying gold from children and no, no problem and you just the indian. now it's more that i feel sorry for them metal they shouldn't be doing that. i'll see them in the number that i buy their goals because they need the money. now, now they're going to, as i 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 the menu, simon for me as a buyer. and again, it's also important that i help my family number company to come in. again. 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 tow goes to school. it's free in the philippines. but the motorcycle cab to get that costs 10 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 learn a lot of it. my favorite subject is math because i like counting and arithmetic. the

past today, as i said, we going to do reading test, i know follow one by one that says seen how so 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 you go, no. oh, i mean, really and my good 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 at their age, they belong here in schools here. but public,

she drives them then if you need testing. and so, but it's very important that these children come to school because this is where they can do the future with the school leaving certificate, they can choose a good career. but if they don't go to school, because they will continue to work in their minds license because they haven't learned anything else and i'm by, that's why it's so important that they come here, look up on the facility now by that means. and 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 make their living from the trade 3 quarters of the population and the base, the buyers um the seller's business is booming, the mainland mainly make coffee cups. the welcome to power attorney building will be for our basic doors. asking victorians together with my husband,

he is the land or the genetic uncle and be stores during may term us 18 years. one digit by the policy law or 18 years asked when did you find counselor the this i mean by and here in our town it to come. ok. my grandchildren, cardio key system for when they get sold in. if get 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. once again, 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

well then somebody on the move mine is we have the more we um, because not a lot of things so there's no, no, i'm moving, i mean self funding info because i'm mining company is registered with the thirty's. a bed florida. the co has a license to sell. how goes to the philippines? central bank. oh man, man, man, man. yeah. man. yeah. me give me a goal and be enough and show me what you've got. only 4 people them. how to carla . i mean, possession of one of these precious licenses. 9.3 grams about also bodies gold from the middleman who procure the stock from small scale minus light cot, toes 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. 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 but on guy? yeah. do you sometimes 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 it should be there fine or no worth or nothing. the children alone, but sometimes sometimes a child might for example, bring food for the fall, the hi. and so that's what do you then say that these children are working in the mind? someone else? no one, all government has them child labor by, you know,

the government, the everyone in protocol as seems to be against child labor. but hardly anyone is really doing anything about that. 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 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

loading was 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 those things i got 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, misplaced, we ended up reading the incentive. but if the state doesn't care, if it passes laws but doesn't enforce or implement them, 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 san nickel, shady nickel, i'm thinking 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 team in the mine. yeah. so i'm at the morning. i know he's friends go down to but he did not know. it was madness. anyway, so 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 know for myself and that was what killed him. my mama and today there's nothing i can do . what can the animal gets too late to? i always tell parents not to send their children into the mines because that coast my son, his life and 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 of late a of the fathers. they're 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. i don't turn anything from hanging around at home. the none of the

divers searching for gold on the sea bed half diving cylinders. just like in the swamp, they have only a plastic tube linked to a compressor. dennis junior will send 8 hours under water today. the narrow hose, this is, and 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 pro, it's in 6. the each sack weighs the t t lows with an average of $0.15 per day. they hope to find one gram of gold. the may see now me single. what junior's doing as impressive as i believe that i know i'm not a good driver and not, but he's a master at it because his father taught them so that he could help support the

family. and then i don't know if i'd bring my son. is this a pretty risky down there? today the dive is 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. i am proud of what i do because this is my people's job. if i'm a proud, proud when and that's how we make a living. we have a one of the of do a short break in the fresh. yeah. dennis, do you need to returns to the sea? he head straight back down to the mine to walk in the depths, the and such so gold,

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