The islands of the Philippines are rich in gold. But extracting the ore can be dangerous and often fatal.
Compression mining is dangerous and illegal, but the lure of gold tempts many to take the risk.
As the price of gold increases so too does the exploitation of child labor in the gold mines of the Philippines.
Photojournalist Larry C. Price reports that children, some as young as 4, toil in the gold mines of the Philippines
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Larry C. Price is an award-winning documentary photographer and multimedia journalist based in Dayton, Ohio. Larry spent much of his career in newspaper journalism as a photographer and an editor.
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