Watch: Inside Nigeria’s backyard mining boom driven by poverty

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Families in central Nigeria's Jos region are engaging in small-scale backyard mining, digging shafts in search of tin and columbite driven by extreme poverty. The practice is rapidly spreading despite significant dangers to the miners and their homes. The phenomenon highlights how economic desperation is reshaping informal resource extraction in the region.

Families in central Nigeria are digging deep mining shafts in their own backyards in search of minerals such as tin and columbite. This video looks at why backyard mining is spreading in Jos, the dangers involved, and how poverty is pushing families to dig for survival beneath their own homes.