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Placer County, California, rescue crews pounced into action and extracted a 16-year-old boy who was stranded in a nearly 50-foot mine shaft. Placer County, California, rescue crews pounced into ...
The Devil's Miner is a 2005 documentary film directed by independent film directors Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani.The film follows a fourteen-year-old Bolivian boy named Basilio Vargas who along with his twelve-year-old brother Bernardino work in the mines near the city of Potosí.
A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States [1] and United Kingdom [2] whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker. Though boys were primarily children , elderly coal miners who could no longer work in the mines because of age, disease, or accident were sometimes employed as breaker boys. [ 3 ]
Secret Ravine is a perennial tributary of Miners Ravine which shortly thereafter runs into Dry Creek in Placer County, California. Its course lies within the cities of Rocklin, Loomis, and Roseville, as well as unincorporated parts of Placer County. It passes through the campus of Sierra College.
The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal miners of using children as "human shields" in the Amazon. He ...
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In collaboration with World Vision and Aim Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Gender and Children's Affairs registered 1,200 child miners to get them out of the mines. [ 10 ] On 26 June 2009, Human Rights Watch published a 62-page report titled Diamonds in the Rough.
In a 3-0 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Google parent Alphabet, Apple, Dell Technologies, Microsoft and Tesla, rejecting an appeal by former ...