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Illegal gold mining in Indonesia | DW Documentary

Illegal gold mining in Indonesia | DW Documentary

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Tourists flock to the Indonesian island of Lombok for its beautiful beaches. But while foreigners snorkel and surf, the islanders are extracting gold from the depths of the earth. The precious metal is then dissolved using mercury, which poisons humans and the environment.

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  1. The name "illegal" is certainly there is a ban from the government, every time they are forced to stop by the next government they will do it again. Do not they know how dangerous work is? Of course they know. You know why they still do the job? Yes! Because of money! Is there no other job but to mine? there! But the income is higher on mine!

  2. Heartbreaking. No gold is worth the health of your family. This young man must find a new way to earn money somehow. The government should step in.

  3. How is this illegal? So when the people mine for gold it is illegal. But then the government does it or sold the land to foreign companies it’s legal? What a lot of horse dung! Everyone should have a right to the natural resources!

  4. AI says: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for mercury in drinking water at 2 parts per billion (ppb), or 0.002 milligrams per liter (mg/L)" >>> Now, the amount of water contaminated in Indonesia is unbearable, criminal, total destruction of the environment and of any kind of life form.

  5. There’s nothing he can do?
    Yes there is, there are much better way to burn the gold/mercury off that goes back into the water to be reused and don’t tip the water used into the environment, short version they need to be educated in better way to burn off the gold and dispose of the water
    But it’s not just these people that have a mercury issue:
    Vaccinations world wide have mercury in them as a preservative!

  6. – We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago and the cancer will go away –

    I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change and global warming, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010.

    Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us 1000 years to the past of the universe.

    Today April 26, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 100 thousand years ago.

    On october 13, 2026 the state of our universe will be at the point 6 million years in the past.

    On june 04, 2051 the state of our universe will be at the point 15 million years in the past.

    On june 28, 2092 the state of our universe will be at the point 30 million years in the past.

    On april 02, 2147 the state of our universe will be at the point 50 million years in the past.

    The result is that the universe is heading back to the point where it started and today we live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago.

    Anyone who does not believe that the climate changed for the reason I mentioned should wait for cancer to disappear very soon because of this reverse movement, I will explain: the human body's immune system will be stimulated, activated and stronger as a result of this reverse process, which results in the disappearance of the cancer.

    Mohamed BOUHAMIDA, teacher of mathematics and a researcher in number theory.

  7. Great documentation on illegal mining.

    We have a similar situation in Ghana – Galamsay.
    Most of river bodies have been destroyed.
    We are yet to see the full scale of the its effect.

  8. They're ignorance they will pay for through the lives of their loved ones and their own is it really worth the risk not at all but through history mankind has paid many times and we will keep on paying till the end of our own existence for their ignorance😢

  9. For the miners if they cannot work without the mercury then they should stop to sire children. This will stop women giving birth to children with deformities. Alternatively let the job be for older men with outgrown kids.

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