There hasn't been news of a major mining accident from China in a week. Maybe it's a good week for Chinese miners, as the last accident was an explosion on the 1st of August killing 14 and injuring 11. Last month saw about a hundred miners dead, mostly from collapses and some from broken elevators.
However, China is no longer among the poorest countries in the world, and is doing well in comparison. Sure, news trickle in, but it's a big industry and is manned mostly by willing adults. Other places are worse.
I've got a long article from AP through Yahoo! news for you:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_af/toiling_for_gold
It's about children aged 5 to 10 in African gold mines digging up ore and extracting the valuables by rinsing it with mercury. It's a long read, and written a little dramatically at points, but I don't think it's an outright lie. Grim nonetheless.
OP out.
You Don't Know China was a personal notebook, mostly from my experiences first as an intern an later working in quality control. There was a group of eager students, who left for mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, and these were some of our experiences.
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