gold mining
gold mining and child labor, gold is now mined mostly in large open pit mines. The rock must be blasted. Highly poisonous cyanide dissolves the gold tracks from the rock. When gold mining are destroying landscapes, environmental pollution and poisoning of people not the exception but the Andean countries of Latin America Regel.In many children work in the gold mines is unfortunately still commonplace. In Ecuador, about 2,000 children toil in such mines, under the worst conditions in order to create the precious metal to the surface. The situation is even worse in the mines of neighboring Peru: here are over 50,000 children to work in gold mines. Peru is the largest exporter of gold Continent: the million-sales back up about 30,000 Peruvian families a miserable survival - and a few gold companies large Reichtum.Die children working in gold mines is particularly dramatic because they are often in no more industrially operated mines. can thus perform the child's hand work in remote and insufficiently secured Stollen.In gold mines children look clean at the age of six small fragments of gold and, with ten years they have to carry large pieces of rock and smashed and just two years later they are working in the mines themselves and help prepare explosions. Particularly stressful and dangerous it is digging into the narrow Tunneln.Da these mines have poor working standards (hardly any technology, especially on long shifts and low wages), the children work hard without the use of machines. The air is stuffy, so that they can hardly breathe, and the fluid loss is enormous in the heat. There will be injuries on the sharp tools and, as most are barefoot, they pull themselves again on their feet on the stones and risk being bitten by snakes or scorpions. But it can also lead to death, if the minor explosions buried under the collapsing tunnels werden.Dies most children work despite the dangerous work without protective clothing because otherwise the required Could not maintain the pace of work more and be ridiculed by the others. By the inhalation of toxic fumes, it is only to harm to the institutions and to mental damage. They know more or less of these risks assessment, but as a 14-year-old boy said: "If you work in mining, we must accept the risks." It is believed that the life expectancy of a child who is employed in mining, is mindert.Hinzu by an average of 15 years the number of operators of the mines to pay the workers come from the amount of raw material found addictive. Especially with gold, this can vary greatly, and it also happens that for weeks nothing found is.
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