Today thousands of Tanzanians, including children, work in licensed and
unlicensed small-scale gold mines in the country, Africa’s
fourth-largest gold producer. They dig and drill in deep, unstable pits,
working underground for shifts around the clock and later crushing bags
of gold ore using hopelessly inferior tools.
What’s more, they risk injury in the event of pits collapsing, not to
talk of the long-term threats to their health what with the fact that
they are dangerously exposed to mercury, breathe dust and carry heavy
loads.
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