at first a "guess" then a "must", watch the sleezing closely.
M-K will be obviously be a big mine, not artisanal. Some here need to differentiate. between minerals and scale of mining operation. Also, whilst child labor in artisanal mining is deplorable it still feeds a family (children are social security policies in such countries), whats their option besides making ethicists in the west feel good? Thats what none of the do-gooder moral outrage articles include, they omit it and move on to next outrage. What's the option, starve and rot? Wait for Bill Gates?
Hokusai was a great printmaker, pity to see his name being spoilt by poor craft and lack of attention to detail in the name of a sloppy spurn
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