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Strangely, I discovered the horrors of myanmar mining through tiktok. The sight and scale of 400000 people mining jade in very dangerous conditions is unimaginable

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/02/landsl...

Thanks for sharing this, Global Witness appears to have a pretty wonderful page on the topic[0]. It reminds me of the images of the Serra Pelada miners in Powaqqatsi[1], which is 20+ years old. It's sad to see how little progress we've made, in some ways.

[0] https://www.globalwitness.org/en/all-countries-and-regions/m...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOdhKYj8Bc

Probably lead too?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006368

They have a very close relationship with North Korea and host knowledge sharing meetings with them. They are trying to model their dictatorship after NK.