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Story. >> reporter: inside a bat-filled cave, miners are finishing up a 14-hour day. >> how old are they? >> 8. >> reporter: they workscol every one a 50-foot airlift mica pit and in nearly every hole a child. sometimes called a used in every car, every phone and every pl than 10,000 children work here in the mica mines. they earn pennies a day, if paid at all. >> they don't have any money. they don't have any choice. >> reporter: we meet this family of five. they live on less than $3 a week and one cup of rice a day. what they have is one cup of rice?

They work seven days a week. none of them go to school. if they don't dig, they don't eat. see those holes? every one, a 50-foot mica pit and in nearly every hole, a child. >> joining me now, nbc investigative correspondent. sing cynthia, you did nine minutes on this. what did you find out? >> well, i mean, katy, some of the world's richest and most profitable countries depend upon children for the very products that they sell or that they -- that they use. and to actually be present with these kids and their families was really overwhelming. at some points, i just had to walk away and compose...