The Philippines: Dangerous and Illegal Compressor Mining ...
· Philippines, 2012. Compressor mining is used when the water table is close to the surface. Young men and teenage boys dive to the bottom of pits up to 40 feet deep to fill ore sacks. The miner breaths though a thin plastic tube attached to a small gasolinepowered air compressor on the surface. Very young children are put to work at less ...