In a worst case scenario, the social problems caused by an underrepresented ASM industry look like a pregnant woman with her four-year-old son hauling rocks (PDF) and
being exposed to mercury fumes through the processing of gold from ore.
Or a nine-year-old boy, slight enough to reach the deepest and darkest
corners of a badly constructed tunnel, working in a space that is liable
to collapse at any time.
http://www.iied.org/informality-formalisation-artisanal-small-scale-mining-sector
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