Dressed in a light pink gown, 6-year-old Juliet Samaniya squats below scorching skies to chip at a jagged white rock with a stone device. Dust coats her tiny palms and her hair as she works hour after hour, for lower than a greenback a day in Nasarawa, Nigeria. The panorama round her is dotted with lively and deserted mine shafts, farmland that will quickly be cleared looking for extra wealthy ore, and different mine employees—lots of them kids. Juliet needs to be at school, her mom, Abigail Samaniya, admits. Instead, Juliet spends her day mining lithium, a mineral essential for batteries wanted within the international transition to wash vitality, to earn cash that helps maintain her household. “That is the one possibility,” Abigail Samaniya tells the AP.
