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To Find Criminals and Child Exploitation in Gold Mines, We Just Had to Look
19 October 2026 at 11:59
Layers of people certify that gold is free from rights abuses and criminality. Nobody makes them leave their desks.
Labor abuses and criminality are not hard to find in the world’s unlicensed gold mines. Assuming someone visits.
© Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
