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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 then i'm looking for the best place to stop the day's work. the family has come to search for go a book up what we found some here in this area before. so we're hoping there's some
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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? it's a for you, or i know from the machine is running 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 some sort of thing, but or anything up and such a compressor is designed to pump into call tires that here it will allow high to, to breeze underwood 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
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coals 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 diverse 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 a huge black. now i can only find my way with my hand. that was messy. then 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 that was you die down there with no 1. 1 with the
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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 huff, that's 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 mines.
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the guy competed fee, that's not the philippines. it's 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 living with my family? i mean, i've been, i've been doing this work for as long as i can remember. i mean, do you guys think 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 the these days there was silence and this of self, doug, 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.
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the 70 percent of gold traded in the philippines comes from mines in this region. the fluid in by dreams of food to 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
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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. that's a lot about that side for further say him 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 by having to get on top of that promot. 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 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
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the simply doing the garden said that's the gold from the month that i collect it down there with the letters that me that's a lot. the one on these guys i chose 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 within that curie. a highly toxic metal that attacks the respiratory tract on the brain. the
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normal 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 i'm 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 good evening. so what are you got for me today? oh, that's a small one. when i got all the money, all it weighs the same as
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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 lima peabody. 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? 50. i mean, i was added on, we were hoping for at least $200.00 pesos each month at least now we can buy rice and some meet or so 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 blows up and i saw a phone. you'll have to share yourselves. full 345
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thing. 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 your move in the south and then game. i don't feel guilty buying gold from children and no problem. i'll give you the indian now it's more that i feel sorry for them metal, they shouldn't be doing that unless they got it done. indeed them and that i by their goal because they need the money now. now they're going to use, 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. so 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,
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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
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from has today. as i said, we're 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 behinds due to his constant absence. over 90 i read this one says off he goes and no. oh, i mean, when mom been 6 of the children in the school work in the goals 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,
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then they need this thing. 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 the mines 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 scene 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
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a hub for the gold trade protocol, and the name of kyla means canals and refers to the gold minus 45000 people here make their living from the trade 3 quarters of the population. and for the base, the buyers and the sellers business is booming, the mainland mainly make coffee to get us the cups the welcome to power attorney building to me for the 4 hour visit doors. asking victorians together with my husband,
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he is the one original uncle. and the stores during major us 18 years when he bought thomasville or 18 years asked when did you come to the deepest i mean by and here in our town it to cut out is my grandchildren cargo. he system for when they get older and they've got that done by c, c, c, the choker, my grandson, we'll see. hi, we shy, shy a so lucky, so lucky, i own everything i have today to the gold, i'm the mines. and we were able to build a house by land. i shouldn't break type of fun with my children were able to go to school and we also help other family members who we have 60 employee and it's not within somebody. the more mine is we have the more we got a lot of things. so the,
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i'm moving, i mean, self funding info, and because i'm mining company is registered with the thirty's a bed florez o co has a license to sell. how goes to the philippines? central bank. oh, man, man, man, man. oh yeah. maybe i'm unique. give me a go and be enough and show me what you've called only full people. them. how to carla, are in possession of one of these precious licences. 9.3 grams about also bodies gold from the middleman. who puts you this stock from small scale minus like caught toast family. thanks to her license, she can then legally re sell the gold l.
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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. this these came from the compressor and mining. compress or shop sean coming from other location on one of the but on guy? yeah. the some things 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 to children alone. but sometimes sometimes a child might, for example, bring food for the father. so but what do you then say that these children are working in the mind?
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no one, all government has them child labor by, you know, by was the government. the everyone in ca decala 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 old hon, several seen desk go 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 learning
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what was, how are you doing the forest, how's the work going? if not, then why isn't the machine operating the cetera 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
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key in mind. so, and i wrote you flowers when i see someone is thinking of the handling out of time, knuckle shading, nichols, and figure out what i need. my son was looking for gold under water in a shaft, me here. and there was a landslide 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 know it was madness by my son or we
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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 on this to 7 i is it goes mine it 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 mood that relates 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 is nothing i can do in the animal. it gets too late to. i always tell parents not to send their children into the mines because that coast 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
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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. 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 one, 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 divers
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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 of the dentist junior will spend 8 hours under water today. the narrow hose, this is only asked, apply his safety line the he plunges to a depth of 20 meters. joining the davis, the
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little ones back already, and he's brought some sacks. the each sack weighs the t t lows with an average of $0.15 per day. they hope to find one graham of gold. the may seem, i'm a single. mean, i'm not sure what junior is doing as impressive as i believe 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
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family. i don't know if i'd bring my son some pretty risky down there of the today the dive is from late k r in lock. 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 proud, proud when it's how we make a living, we have a one of the of do a short break and the fresh yeah. dentist do, near returns to the sea. he head straight back down to the mine,
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to walk in the depths and search for gold, the eastern thing and do the same way you expect and more different things from life when your parents i just want to pursue was that's my thought was fired or you think your kid is 2 different, risky, irresponsible, reasonable port is not. i want my son to become a doctor to in the canal. it's time to, to get your generation with a sleep asked and then when generation mash, watch snow on youtube,
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