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It is estimated that about 1 million children work in mines in the world. These children work in very bad Conditions.

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Usually ages 5-17 year old work in child mining.

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Most children can be found mining in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and in parts of Europe.

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In about 1838 there was an accident in Silkstone , water overflowed into a drift after bad thunderstorms causing a drift to kill 20 children, They aged to 8-16.

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Children are usually forced to work in mines all there life.

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Some things that the children do includes digging shafts, crushing rocks, and carrying ore in gold mines and digging, scraping and lifting in salt mines and carrying and crushing large stones in quarries.

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There is a good chance that mining causes  serious injuries; health consequences and an unknown number of children lose their lives while mining every year.

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They usually mine for Diamond, gold, coal.

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Most children can work in mercury, mercury is a highly toxic substance used to extract gold. Mercury poisoning can affect a person’s brain, heart, kidneys, and lungs. It is also poisons and is extremely detrimental to children, affecting their nervous system development leading to long-term developmental disabilities.

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Because of the relatively small number of child miners (one million), compared to child laborers in agriculture (over 100 million), child mining has not received the attention it deserves. Additionally, mining often takes place in temporary, remote, small-scale locations making it difficult to regulate and monitor.

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Here is a graph of the amount of kids working in child labor in India.