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Isang Paa Sa Hukay "The Price of Gold": Reflection Paper

The document discusses the gold mining industry in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte in the Philippines. It notes that many people, including children as young as 11, risk their lives working in dangerous small-scale gold mines due to lack of other economic opportunities. The miners dive into narrow shafts using only air compressors for breathing in hopes of finding small pieces of gold to earn barely enough money to survive. While gold mining has become part of the local culture out of necessity, the documentary aims to bring awareness about the hard work and risks faced by miners in order to produce gold that is used to adorn the bodies of others.

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Isang Paa Sa Hukay "The Price of Gold": Reflection Paper

The document discusses the gold mining industry in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte in the Philippines. It notes that many people, including children as young as 11, risk their lives working in dangerous small-scale gold mines due to lack of other economic opportunities. The miners dive into narrow shafts using only air compressors for breathing in hopes of finding small pieces of gold to earn barely enough money to survive. While gold mining has become part of the local culture out of necessity, the documentary aims to bring awareness about the hard work and risks faced by miners in order to produce gold that is used to adorn the bodies of others.

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Isang Paa sa Hukay “The Price of Gold”

Reflection Paper

In the face of such enormous influence from the booming economy, many
people are struggling for food and survival on an everyday basis. Most of the family
members, young and old, either husband or wife engage on every way in order to find
a source of income. Meanwhile, studies have shown that the Philippines possesses one
of the largest gold deposits in the world. That’s why, there are lot of miners risk their
lives working in small-scale miners all over the archipelago, and approximately 6-9
percent are minors among 200,000 to 300,000 miners.

The documentary video we’ve watched shows the town of Jose Panganiban,
Camarines Norte, a particular place there used to be called “Mambulao” which means
“full of gold” runs as deep as the network of mining shafts. Jose Panganiban was
called Little Manila before, because if you look at the economy of the Bicol Region
this was expected to be the “Queen City” because of the Philippine iron mines.

However, Jose Panganiban is well entrenched in the mining industry. Because


the people there are in unfrequented place, they don’t have an alternative source of
living except to turn into a small-scale mining. Very distressful to think that they were
risking their lives diving down in the narrow shafts with only an air compressor to
support their breathing, just for very little pieces of gold. And worse, the children
learned their fathers' dangerous trade. In an effort to help their families survive,
children as young as 11 years old regularly work in the mines for money that's barely
enough to keep them fed. It somehow became part of their culture.

Not all that glitters is gold!

Most people never know whose blood and sweat went into producing the gold
that adorns their bodies, but this short and meaningful film will touches our hearts and
open our minds to better understand and appreciate the hardwork of our fellowmen.
We must take heart and remember, our lives are very important just so the golds.

So with small steps, come great steps, and with these great steps each and every
one of us can help others less fortunate than ourselves so that they’ll never drown on a
piteous pit.

RAFER, DARLENE C.

BSEE-2A

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