Child labour in mining is uneconomic though. You'd still get children here-and-there for whatever reason, but mining involves hugely expensive machines doing mo

Child labour in mining is uneconomic though. You'd still get children here-and-there for whatever reason, but mining involves hugely expensive machines doing most of the work, or heavy lifting that a child can't do. If you're comfortable spending $10 million on a machine and putting a small child behind the wheel, odds are great you'll go bankrupt trying to run a mine.