Emmy Award for Larry and PBS NewsHour

Dangerous Work

A miner disappears below the opaque waters of an underwater gold mine in the Philippines. He will work for hours breathing through a plastic hose connected to an air compressor. © Larry C. Price.

We're so honored to receive an Emmy award for a January 2014 story Larry produced with PBS NewsHour and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting about compressor mining in the Philippines. The Philippine legislature cited the PBS NewsHour broadcast when it voted to outlaw the dangerous and deadly practice of underwater gold mining. Miners, often young boys, work for hours at at a time in flooded 40-foot-deep pits, breathing through plastic tubes as they fill cloth bags with gold ore. See the PBS broadcast here.

October 2, 2015