Reel Time: Isang Paa sa Hukay (The Price of Gold) | Full Episode

Studies have shown that the Philippines possesses one of the largest gold deposits in the world. An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 miners risk their lives working in small-scale mines all over the archipelago. An estimated 18,000 of them are minors. And this is their story.

Poverty in the town of Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte runs as deep as the network of mining shafts. Without an alternative source of living, the locals turn to small-scale mining, risking their lives diving down narrow shafts with only an air compressor to support their breathing, for very little pieces of gold. And worse, the children learn their fathers’ dangerous trade. In an effort to help their families survive, children as young as 11 years old regularly work in the mines for money that’s barely enough to keep them fed.

It’s a demon that repeatedly rears its ugly head, dropping shortly below the radar, but surfacing once more with ever terrifying dimensions – stories of children suffering from moments of fear that they will drown, fall and die in the pit of small-scale gold mines in this part of the country.

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