Every year, people spend more than US$300 billion on jewellery and watches, often buying them as gifts for loved ones. But the conditions under which gold and diamonds are mined can be brutal, and in small-scale mining, child labour is common. In Ghana, I met 16-year-old Samuel, who had been working in gold mines since he was 11. He described long grueling hours crushing ore, and how he regularly coughed up blood from breathing in the ore dust. Child miners risk brain damage from exposure to mercury, used to process gold, and some have been injured or died when unstable pits have collapsed.
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