Migori Governor Okoth Obado has been appealing for safe and modern mining exploration to avert deaths of miners.
The miners usually handle dangerous chemicals such as mercury with bare hands oblivious of health dangers they were exposing themselves to.
Some of them go more than 100 feet deep without oxygen bags and only use generators to light up the tunnels.
Some children have also dropped out of school to assist their poor parents in looking for gold deposits in their areas.
Two years ago, national Government cancelled mining licenses of many processing firms in an attempt to streamline operations in the sector.
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