I had a very good friend who was a missionary in South America (near Chile where they mine lithium) and he ILLEGALLY snuck a video camera in and videoed the orphans working the "sludge pit" getting their hands, and feet eaten off by the toxic alkali for a cot, food and roof. The Gov.t seized his camcorder but Mike saved the micro-sd cards inside his body thru Customs. Protective gear costs MONEY. Orphans will work until they die for almost nothing. It's a Chinese corporation in Chile, and they are known as "The Worst Polluter On Earth". The same corp. recovers more gold from used Western electronics than all others combined. NETFLIX, Nat Geo and another TV channel have done shows on them. The deal is, all the workers are "contract labor"-independants.