Tanzania: Witness - a Boy's Mining Accident - Richard's Story, Tanzania

Richard's story is familiar to people of rural southern Tanzania, where noisy, bustling towns seem to spring up in the middle of a sea of dried grass around small-scale mines, and where many people - including children - mine gold for a living. But mining is an especially dangerous job for children, in part because of the risk of injury, but also because miners handle toxic mercury to separate the gold from the ore.
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