rafael tbone is a manager of. an illegal mind that has developed into a small company he and his partners were employed by the former company frontino gold mines bought out by grown colombia they've set up their activity here without authorization. and i guess. the felt right i couldn't understand it that it everyone works on the front you know god well x. frontino not only they forced us into doing this because they fired us you know now and they threw us out and not only got an up close so we came to find work here. under the virgin mary's protection the miners descend three hundred meters below ground. at the mine bottom air is in short supply. so is the water good. better than my wife. smiles on their faces but on their backs loads weighing eighty kilos. six eight ten cents per day. before most slave labor that can be fatal due to cave ins and yet there's no shortage of miners wanting to work here some of them can earn up to two thousand euros a month four times the average salary in colombia. meter after mete