And yet coal wealth was tremendously beneficial for those communities. Kids-in-mines was ended by better labor regulation, not by cutting off the source of the wealth. Ghana has an amazing opportunity here. The world is literally shipping gold to their doorstep. There has got to be a solution that improves standards without cutting them out of the loop.

Any law that improves standards will increase cost and then they don't get the scrap anymore, someone else without laws will. The market will find a place.