Jul 10 Watch Children in Burkina Faso Take on Dirty, Dangerous Work of Digging Up Gold Children in Burkina Faso Take on Dirty, Dangerous Work of Digging Up Gold… Continue watching
Jul 10 One Million Children Labor in Africa’s Goldmines By Ellen Rolfes In Burkina Faso, gold production has more than doubled in recent years. Though child labor is against the law in the West African nation, the economics and the nature of mining make labor law enforcement extremely difficult. Continue reading
Jul 10 In Burkina Faso’s Gold Mines, Children Toil Along With Adults By Larisa Epatko Children caked in dust and sweat climb in and out of 150-foot mine shafts with dexterity. Their small bodies operate makeshift grinding machines to extract gold from its ore. Continue reading
Jul 05 Childhood Lost in Burkina Faso Gold Mines By Larisa Epatko Working alongside adults in Burkina Faso's gold mines are children, sometimes as young as 3 years old. View a collection of Larry C. Price's photographs. Continue reading
May 09 Watch Guatemala Cracks Down on Mining Protests Miles O'Brien interviews Xeni Jardin about Guatemalan protests. Continue watching
Jul 09 Watch Deadly Black Lung Disease Rises Among Coal Miners Despite legislation meant to enact safety practices to prevent coal miners from getting black lung disease, workers are still being exposed to high levels of dust. Hari Sreenivasan talks to NPR reporter Howard Berkes about his investigation into the increased… Continue watching
Feb 23 Watch Upper Big Branch Miners’ Families ‘Encouraged’ by Prosecutors’ Moves Upper Big Branch Miners' Families 'Encouraged' by Prosecutors' Moves… Continue watching
Dec 27 Watch In Peru, Gold Rush Leads to Mercury Contamination Concerns In remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon, extensive gold-mining operations have stirred major environmental concerns over mercury contamination in fish, fish-eating wildlife and humans. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports. Continue watching
Nov 07 Watch Gold Lures Illegal Miners to Peru’s Rainforests In southeastern Peru, where the Andes Mountains meet the Amazon, lies one of the world's richest ecosystems and the destructive lure of gold. In a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports on illegal… Continue watching
May 19 Watch Report on Deadly W.Va. Mine Blast Castigates Massey for Safety Lapses In the worst U.S. mining disaster in four decades, 29 trapped miners were killed after an explosion deep inside the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. Ray Suarez speaks with NPR's Howard Berkes about a new report on the… Continue watching