http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_af/toiling_for_gold;_ylt=Agr3n1YYN30d.DAp3H_ZqUlI2ocA TENKOTO, Senegal - A reef of gold buried beneath this vast, parched grassland arcs across some of the world's poorest countries. Where the ore is rich, industrial mines carve it out. Where it's not, the poor sift the earth. These hardscrabble miners include many thousands of children. They work long hours at often dangerous jobs in hundreds of primitive mines scattered through the West African... read more
