> Gold and mercury, not books, for Venezuela's child miners / 33V96QB
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Gold and mercury, not books, for Venezuela's child miners / 33V96QB
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In the Venezuelan town of El Callao, extracting gold from soil starts as a kid's game, but soon becomes a full-time job that human rights activists slam as dangerous exploitation.
Small and agile, the children's size helps them shimmy into narrow wells to hack out muddy earth, hoping it will contain gold -- which has become ever more precious as Venezuela's oil production has plummeted. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES