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Precious Metal, Cheap Labor

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Summary I go [to the gold processing site] at 6 a.m. and come back at 5 p.m. I have a break at lunchtime. I am very tired from it. Sometimes I buy painkillers to soothe the pain in my back and chest….I sell the gold to a buyer, his name is [name withheld]…. [I sell to him] at his house. He does not ask about my age. The trader also gives me mercury. —“Kwame,” 12, Homase, Amansie Central district, April 2014 All I need to know is the gold is coming and that it is real gold. —Trader, Dunkwa-on-Offin, April 2014 Ghana is one of the world’s top 10 gold producers. Many traders and refiners prefer to source gold from Ghana—a stable democracy—rather than from controversial conflict-affected...

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