The Money Stone
Investigate • 1h 33m
Hundreds of feet beneath Ghana's jungles, sweat-soaked miners squeeze through tiny crevices. Considered outlaws by the government, these 'galamsey' are digging raw gold, feeding an insatiable global industry. As the gold rush draws both local prospectors and eager foreign corporations to the impoverished nation, struggling families must decide whether to put their kids in school or take a gamble by sending them into the dangerous pits.
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