It's a man's world mining gold in the Philippines — but it's the women who come off worst.
Be it cooking toxic pans of mercury, scouring mud pools for cheap slivers of hope or sluicing the boggy soil — women do the hardest jobs and get paid the least.
One in three of the illegal mining workforce is female — and women are 90 times more at risk of dying on the job than men.
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