https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck By, Lauren D, Cade P, Tyson M. en-us 2018-04-09 19:34:54 UTC 2025-10-28 23:03:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250014872 It is estimated that about 1 million children work in mines in the world. These children work in very bad Conditions.]]> 2018-04-09 19:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250014872 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250016873 Usually ages 5-17 year old work in child mining.]]> 2018-04-09 19:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250016873 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250018597 Most children can be found mining in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and in parts of Europe.]]> 2018-04-09 19:52:31 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250018597 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250019412 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.]]> 2018-04-09 19:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250019412 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250022814 Children are usually forced to work in mines all there life.]]> 2018-04-09 20:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250022814 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250023760 They usually mine for Diamond, gold, coal.]]> 2018-04-09 20:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250023760 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250026179 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.]]> 2018-04-09 20:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250026179 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250453319 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.

]]> 2018-04-10 19:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250453319 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250455199  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.]]> 2018-04-10 19:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250455199 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250456964 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.

]]> 2018-04-10 19:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250456964 3013158 https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250461116 Here is a graph of the amount of kids working in child labor in India.]]> 2018-04-10 19:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/3013158/8rd9uu0wrxck/wish/250461116