AFP通信さんのインスタグラム写真 - (AFP通信Instagram)「Gold and mercury, not books, for Venezuela's child miners⁣ ⁣ 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⁣ ⁣ 1 - A miner wearing a shirt with the image of "Uncle Sam" digs in a mine to extract gold, which will then be sold in El Callao, Bolivar State, Venezuela.⁣ ⁣ 2 - A miner works with a bar to dig and extract gold.⁣ ⁣ 3 - A miner shows rocks with traces of gold found in a mine to later be processed by hand in a mill in El Callao.⁣ ⁣ 4 & 5 - Mining children work digging in a mine in search of gold.⁣ ⁣ 6 - A young miner carries a bag of mud in an open pit mine in search of gold to later sell it in El Callao.⁣ ⁣ 7 - A mining boy unloads a bag of mud into a wooden container used to strain and wash mud in search of gold.⁣ ⁣ 8-> 9 - A young miner strains and separates mercury from the mud used to adhere gold found in an open pit mine⁣ ⁣ 10 - A mining boy shows a ball of mercury that is used daily to separate the gold found among mud puddles.⁣ ⁣ 📷 @magdagibelli⁣ 📷 @yrispaul_21⁣ #AFP」9月24日 20時00分