Monday, June 3, 2019

Philippines: Dying For Gold

We investigate why people are risking their lives in an illegal gold industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.


But not everyone is reaping large profits.
Investors desperate to cash in on a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year are enticing poor villagers to risk their lives by diving deep below the surface of muddy mangroves in search of gold.
The nuggets they find may eventually fetch a high price, but miners often receive a pittance and there is little safeguard to protect them.

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