"The condition of small-scale miners in Barangay Bukal, Nabunturan Compostela Valley Province"

ABSTRACT The study is about the conditions of the small-scale miners in Barangay Bukal, Nabunturan Compostela Valley Province. Looking at the situation of the small-scale miners nowadays, the miners are really pitiful to look at because of the big issues that the sector had encountered through the generations. These self devastating issues give very big impacts to the miners. The public had been blinded by these issues especially to the miners’ health which is the bait of the gold hunting. In their economic status’ condition, it is noticeable that many of the miners are having a poor life. If the attention is driven the miners’ safety, this is one of the biggest controversies in the great world of mining that until now it have been a long talk in the government. In the the relationship of miners’ family between them, it is hard to deny the fact that family relations are also affected by mining because everybody knows that miners would seek and dig anywhere in the world just to bring money to the family in spite of the reality of moving away from home for the sake of work. The study is centered on the condition of the miners to serve as an example. It will be discussed in the paper the condition of small scale mining in the aspects of their health, economic status, administration, safety, and family relations. The paper will also mention some things that the miners need from the government.

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Background of the Study
Small-scale mining refers to mining by individuals, groups, families or cooperatives with minimal or no mechanization, often the informal (illegal) sector of the market (T. Hentschel et. Al). From the definition above, small-scale miners is indeed a complex and a dangerous work. Complex in the sense that due to its informality, (illegal background) small-scale mining must be prohibited by the government and yet small-scale mining is widely operated locally, nationally and internationally.
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