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Over one million children are involved in mining

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Mining is considered a form of hazardous labor unfit for children under any circumstances, including poverty.

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mining is the extraction of minerals and metals from earth. miming can also consist of child labor or slavery.

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child labor, mining is dangerous.
this is dangerous because Floods can compromise the stability of pit walls, bringing about a collapse that kills miners and wrecks equipment. A methane gas buildup can lead to an explosion in a coal mine.

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Around the world, children, ages 5-17, work in the mines for as little as $2 per day. 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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Work for child miners 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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Children can often be found working in mines in Asia, Africa, and Latin america and parts of Europe.

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Western countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom are top destinations for products of child mining. Consumers often buy diamonds, gold and precious gems from retailers with disregard to the origin of their jewelry and the human toll that helped produce it.

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Mining is considered a form of hazardous labor unfit for children under any circumstances, including poverty. Mining can lead to serious injuries; health consequences and an unknown number of children lose their lives while mining every year.

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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.