the best mixing of religion and politics, worries many experts the good widen tears. in india, social fabric banks. we've got a documentary about a legal gold money. thanks for watching do big ultima vo companies play a role in the destruction of the rain forest? the letter for luxury casa, often comes from illegal capital funds in the m, as in yet the supply chains does matter to the deal industry. the illegal of the stats may said on d, w. low indonesia, a power dies island. the tools over a 1000000 to is to you get the nice that smoke,

honey kills is a hidden treasure gold. and that's why the island has one of the densest populations of gold miners in indonesia. southeast asia is biggest go to produce. this industry is fueled by a deputy for dotius mercury. net. but we want to get the goal one group of medical they could kill and make you a health problem. indeed, some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of my mind and my answer talks and is spreading for the opposite. the level at which you have to evacuate out quasi luxury, is how you're fully regulated multibillion dollar goals, mining industry. how did this make sure we get here, or why is it being used?

you to of what i do, that i have to be very careful, very distrusting of general is not like any other body. we must constantly one the public about the risk. the n g is working in and around secretary of an area consisting of 3 small villages has counted nearly 50 children, born with new, logical, and physical best defects since 2018 minus gotta step. and then what's your name? erica, the you're new here here. yeah, but i find that i'll just say me today for these children are being examined by

a concern to the cold up to the down now started with seizures, and now he's constantly drooling where he's worried. there may be a common spread time that conditions together and then some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of i'm. i'm very concerned because i also have a young child and god bless. and we all know that mercury poisoning has terrible repercussions, and there is no cure, none in the air. how many were you exposed to lots of mercury before she was born data, medically? yes. e, and what is the seizure started when she was one lady down? the going to nevada, she's also have data wash off now. she's at the plus why i'm worried about not carry somebody because you hear a lot about. it's a fact that the medical people outside you to exposure to much or dimples. it was

a simple and even state to how this is well documented was previous major disasters . so having a stuck reminders of the risks it poses this child of 6 is an even more severe case. she is incapable of expressing herself and barely reacts to light. naturally, poisoning was once tied to college and ration and manufacturing. however, by the 21st century, most industries adopted alternative met to a free production methods. then a new danger in much is your husband a gold minor? yes, yes. the story of informal gold mining and loan book style sheet around 15 years ago when locals spoke, she's an opportunity. large mining company found, and lots deposits in lumber. local people started to think about, oh,

if there is gold for large scale, probably we can get the small scale one. so they thought they could get, you know, the crumbs from the big guys just hadn't even been in full mining to cough. eventually producing more goals than corporate mining companies. up until now, the gold mining activities, especially the small scale illegal, illegal, and elicit normally secretary of about that work today. 19, a has agreed to share his story. now messiah part of a 95 by i live the long. well my name is talk to them about how unique i was pulling in the class. a lot of good. yeah. yeah. and then a lot of people go to work and the fresh air was official and my goal is to do this, how to load and off. and i just wanted to sort of of the colors i chose to become a millionaire. really because like it does,

let me hear the little bit about this. i will have to pam i quickly before i leave the house because look like stuff out of my mining tools invalid. yeah, this to the trip then take 2 hours. right down to the it's getting late to such a hurry to pull out of that as i uh, my whole family and some including my own clothes and other relatives. i have real gold miners just like me. my lulu, the i the pin number the

that last and i feel a sense of joy when i get to the present on the follow the sound big scene. yeah. the yeah. the people i work with. so i'm like, my brothers soul dannetta the fall off. so i do, laurie west, that's not true. i was the i the, the, an estimated 22000 people in lumber depend on small scale goals mining to earn a living. excavation for terry as see from the steep mountain side is sold on and it's personal mine. but he doesn't do that. the it's currently is a 16 meters, the is naturally, some will frame and muscular bills provide him with a particular advantage. when descending into the depths,

the most of the most that we need to prioritize our safety. i'm gonna go down the hall and i do the the, the work is extremely dangerous to low oxygen levels. intense heat falling wilks flash drugs and gas leaks when that total tools are a few of the risks. only recently, i taught them and blocks out due to a lack of oxygen along. good us, i'm just fine. i have my god, i'm standing by my colleagues thought i was the, you know what i mean, they get. i'll go ahead and add the bottom line. i think so,

but i guess we'll do is pull the color of this rock is white. that's good. the problem. and then there are holes of greens and yellows and it has black veins. you've got a 9 to watch, spending time. very good. but the real danger begins with fast hold on and we tons has now he was process seal to extract a gold and meant to be is the key component. yeah . and then the finally get home by the pound, the or from the mounts into small pieces is that the lawyer is that the little. but the in the rocks are placed in a bowl mail where they are combined with weights and hundreds of pieces of water. gradually they breaks down into the settlement as i put this mercury in

the bowl to collect the call to see the mean is pulled into the bowl middle to bind with a go the mouth to reach is then burned away, leaving behind fuel gold and poisonous fumes of the finally, the toxic waste, whole time is discussed age into the environment. the socket hospital officials came to my house to explain the risk to mercury to us. but that's nothing i can do. we don't know how to process the order without using the right by the phone to all i know i so being you that the merger is an extremely has or does metal the can have severe consequences on human health and the

environment. it can cause minimize the disease, which is a serious condition leading, coma or alice's death. it can also cause new or logical disorders, especially children. it can cross the human flush center leading to a birth defects and other logical problems. globally 20 percent to the annual go production comes from info, reminders, like rama in indonesia, moco baby, produced like this, that informal mining operations. to complicate matches, the minus pull mills often located and then look for the router filters. the contaminated waste water then finds its way into drinking wells. rice patties

and the rivers and scenes where people fish has the open loop and then like one level of accomplish as a big i research conducted by several universities such as my thought, i'm university. sure, the mercury is present in best of goals and fruit and other food production in lumber. i fall. i mean that that's where you put them up so you find them. yeah. so if anything to them or no matter what we get to now, i didn't even get into the toxicity of the mercury, doesn't just cause problems where the miners were crouching and it also spreads to other places may i put in with. and i knew that some of that may be something that i might have set them, but then lion. but that's not who, naturally, which is central tendency to be an accumulates in the air until one day. some way it falls as toxic rain. and then you move wherever the wind takes its on on. yeah, yeah,

you mean you might can't escape, it ended up happening data naturally does not break down in the environment to move to fused to move is accumulates, building up in the food chain. the today, federal rahman is a happy the us, you know, i'm saying is that gape. i think it's about, off of graph. that's was around 300000 group. yeah. but as on say the yeah that's i'm through that smells and twice the amount in daily is efficient. but it will cost will this come to his family, neighbors, and community? this is the only metal, this is liquid room temperature. mix it with cold and watch

a mesmerizing ritual funding on for the 1st and part of china is sold to of di, dr. consuming mandatory in his pursuit of a multitude. he was not the last abraham lincoln, the pirate king, black beard and isaac, new old leave to have suffered from that to be poisoning. in the 20th century map, can we continue to be used in medicines? lightbulbs. the moment was close metrics and mold was in the 1950s a much a leak as a factory in the seaside town. as many montage upon killed moles a 900 people and left thousands, permanently disabled. here is another child whose father died. minimize the disease,

her limbs are deformed. that is also in the title regulations around the world. by 2013 a global treaty, the minimizer conventional met to a was born. today, $9.00 to $9.00 countries, including indonesia, verified the convention, mandating them to protect the citizens from the dangers of this deadly metal. yes, this tract continues the level as a result of coal mining. not sure to use headstrom to key increased and that is a size and a complication assorted by now on the form of this,

i meant the difficulties diagnosing that to re poisoning is that symptoms of similar to those of other diseases. how about medically to what match refines to another capture the symptoms that appear on very similar to those of many in your logical disorders lane. that's how you can get a number of tests on needed to ensure the symptoms are really due to mercury poisoning with the any other uh, never and use of previously collected sancho syndrome bulk. but the efforts were not extensive concerned with the lack of action today. doctor is leading a team to conduct bio mancha testing. that's a community what if i've seen? yeah, a nice problem concerns and so we have to find out just how big the problem is.

first on that list, especially rahman and his pharmacy. said debbie about that, the only thing i know so my name is dr. de la. my area is immunization is a mining hot spot and in my center we want to monitor people's health and the impact of maturation. we would like to test you, your wife and child, at least on the physical cognitive tests a carried out. did you type of the signs of poisoning? do i put the front of mine? is it less? right? i don't. why the? because don't have to change. if i looks like it is starting to whiten up on my new, why am i? yeah, that'd be more to hear the case of metal units. the word simply sensation maybe that and that yes. sometimes the

child intruding uncontrollably again. sometimes it last for 2 or 3 days then the team takes half and to nail samples. yeah, i don't do that as i got released to have been examined by the daughters. a lot of shows to do that. i'll get the investigation continues with a search from that to me in the in the and i left. my niece is a little mix portable mercury analyzer that in there. and i think this device allows us to measure the mercury in the air at a specific location that us out a lot. so the analyzing generates results immediately a reading about 1000 is considered unsafe as

a category for the kind of, here's the results of what 8657, the funding proxy medical mercury concentration in the area around this ball mill is between 8010000 planograms per cubic meter, using it the 121-0002 the number of where you have to evacuate. if i don't see this, i am not based on these results. so i feel that mr. fucking ramon in his family's health are in danger. yes, you're totally taking the back if you could reach 10000 with uh our initial finding indicate that to them as hell sessions. so that, but that's the number of the exam to show that the coordination has been left and right. many of them come on well and that,

and i'm with them from his ability to coordinate fine motor skills, also slower than the average person. that's it. that is all ma'am. uh we can see there are already some issues, some about a dozen one mamma. but the tests may have come too late for 5 around in sun, the possible i'm on the bus went well. once i got on the line, the bus belongs as to how to do it. a lot of daylight to us and how the i realized he didn't want to suckle side that they kept him home in that bundle on a project called to talk to right away. so helping a young people, adults took

a biopsy to investigate the issue. the problem was it has been tested or something . yeah. it was not functioning properly. yeah. might need to make it not but mine. yeah. due to his deformed in test gains, federal government's child is not able to move his files. instead, the ex content needs to be sent out to the tube on a daily basis is out. i'm done by any get that. yeah, the doctor told me how to treat him like 90 myself. my wife can carry on a procedure on. yeah, a lot by the unable. yeah. and yes, but this can only be a temporary fix the identity that i'm and then for me is to see, to send me is exposed to mercury via some of the little behind the baby's, susceptible to molecular genetic changes. let us that again it be that can lead to an amount of teeth as the organs phone, but i'm looking for the pro behind on on them by the end of my skins as

a search and said he needs to be operated on the sea. but i don't have the money my number because i don't have insurance costs around 13000000 roop us. but it's um, you know, for the, the task that kind of money. so cuz i and the, these trials, illness is less defensive, around the, in the enviable position of having to mine more to be able to pay for the surgery. over the next 2 days, the team collects half a nail cuttings. from 9 more individuals. it will take a month for the samples to be analyzed into that the do you usually do, you need those codes. you'd be a start. if you did pass the results might provide on some of those tested

ingram books. it is just a microcosm. the 4th remains a wide spectral, across much of indonesia, the in west set, the data alone, probably $1000.00 ton a year. $1000.00 tons of memory. one drop of medical record kill and, and make you make your health problem. but we're talking about 1000 tons, grams up here. and all over indonesia, 3500 tons the, the, the health issues faced by central rahman, or tucson, and a notes unique to them book in many countries across the

doing informal mind. also using mercury to extract in asia, the problem is brought to the most around continued denisia, where they're over 850 small scale mining hotspots across the country. the nobody knows exactly how much mercury is being used. estimates vary wildly from 300 tons to over 3500. was using? is it the or at least $300000.00 minus, using met to in indonesia. each of them uses up to 20 parts, met to me to every possible goal. because this is a program to the indonesian government who has committed internationally to deal

with mercury f 159. martha implemented mazda convention is a binding international agreements. and then the countries that aims to protect human is on the environment from the dangers of mercury by m equity in the set. and denise jo ratified the minimize a convention with a 2017 loan now and its own ready. according to the national action plan, indonesia has committed to eliminating the use of victory by 2020. the following. i met with some with the national action plan, includes policies that the adoption of alternative technologies for both processing and the tougher enforcements blues is also recommend that the production of met to reach a b stone. this starts with the preservation of the mining of an old colson, above which mercury is made from the there are

a couple of things that can be done to stop for all this problem created by mercury and indonesia. first is to stop the extraction or mining of cinnabar, including the smelting and the process to produce medically from the or and the 2nd is prohibitive. the cell trade of mercury including exploitation mining and we're finding signal in indonesia is not against the little. you have a tiny but the government does not issued any time. it's making it de facto illegal. regardless, a secret under listed domestic production in supply chains and that to me is still possibly a today's price, $3500.00 tons of met to

a could be was over $370000000.00 us dollars. the where did the city of our or come from colors, according to my information, to send the volcano from setup island into the most out. i'm going to be able to do that. and indonesia, you have to have a backup. so you will be able to continue the business and activities without any disturbance. so this high rank of the shows could be police, military or a government official. and we heard from morris, and i like to tell stories from people underground that there are some important people picking up their businesses. we contacted the ministry of environment and forestry. it was used to comment on the list, which meant to be trade. ringback one of the largest and about mines in indonesia is allegedly on sarah island in my little crew products.

and despite its illegal nature, it can be seen from space. the satellite pictures taken in full list of 2022. the blue tags hides the mining activity and machinery that allow mine is to excavate to send about old local journalist a trying to expose this illegal activities. the says i'm going to the mountain to find this in about my new number. so yeah, my name is really slow. yeah. the i'm a journalist, you know, not lease custodians. i am in my, my daily reporting. so comes primarily the environment on an indigenous people when i look so i know it's not my setup. i that's the model. good on my local data

that i want to document the mining activities didn't become independent so so, so they get on the side of them get to move. it's very difficult to get in. like, i think i have to be very careful because i love the very distrusting of journalists, because they can expose the information to the public. this illegal mining still exist. that's the cutting me much. i've done with long try to get protection from the village head, whether mine is situated, but failed. what's the media to expose your mind? to tools for several minds that he knew opened up about people who receive bribes, calling you to get somebody to buy. that's widely believed by police officers are involved. what be the best? who at the death of 30 by then practice he shot felt responsible in

person can phone the structure like imagery, the film, the following of his move out of food. and i found the minus 10 to 12 here in the middle of the mountains near the mirror about 1000 meters above sea level. so to begin out sick today, do you think lots of tents been set up of look see if there was no way of activity would go unnoticed. thousands of tents, not it's impossible, not to notice. this raises the question, with a certain qualities, a coordinating all depending upon di attempts to shut down the minds what publicised in the media in 20172020. but as resign found out, these attempts have failed to get a memo described that they were still active, cinnabon,

mining and engineers. you need, for instance, from the is due to a couple of things. in the memo i discussed being we little enforcement in the can who can give them. this is due to several factors. for example, the involvement of nor enforcement offices, old and lack of resources in the field. i still am on monday. the on sarah is believed to be some of the pillars in the world. this creates an alluring opportunity for those with intentions. supply i don't. yeah. and if i'm a gun by pushing them back to discovery, i've seen a bar in sarah and other parts of eastern indonesia where there's been a bar about indonesia has become an ex border of mercury. and that is the largest supporter. yes. do you mind? yeah. putting this out on the books, i'd be me daddy, that, that be so sorry, based on the dates or i have compilers get, some new kind of officials appeared to be involved in

a go i such as been some couple me sonia and the i suppose these come with me, not got the guy. we traced quotes documented goodman. i did underneath the napa on discover the shipment of synagogue has been delivered using and indonesia national armed forces truck with a driver. and i'm a member of the lady and then a movie. then you get, but i'm more than a get lined up. i can get with somebody. then i also found a court ruling a number where the police were involved in trading mercury, me, but the lumber to enter the 10 according in leasing to use. illegal refineries have been spoke to you as in boy bogle and john, by the day constantly on the move to is a detection and now we signed the lease that will also be finalized on several items. yeah, and then we'll have to stop some of that. ok,

the risk activity that they have. the results are on the top for this use for destination. look at the the kind of look more into them. the, with the influx of domestic battery indonesian gold miners now have a plentiful supply of the toxic metal traditionally. so to a middle man, it's currently available on social media platforms, like facebook, west sellers provide delivery right to the minus doorstep. we checked with facebook quiet. this is happening, but they have yet to reply. it was an innocent, but highly functional supply chain. mercury is finding its way into the hands of gold miners full of indonesia. this is welcome news to the minus inspector tongue lum bulk. by the majority of the population of reliant on goes mining for anything

. just one gram as goal is, was very hawks. the usual monthly minimum wage yeah, go findings in poultry because there's no other one from the some why. so you can only mine here. and secretary, if you don't use mercury while you call and get the call among the even if you could see the golden rule, we couldn't get into it without them last night. but the them not, not up the expense of trying their best to convince the miners to change the ways to get that money into. but i just need to ask some of the next step, how to get that done. when we went to the field, we trying to educate the miners when it gets out while i'm on medical, it's a little uh and that's where they know that mercury is very toxic. i think i didn't, but they don't want to be banned from using an eye on the ladder and wound up i'm including. so when we tried to talk to them and educate them. uh,

they turned against the line. yeah. any. i remember talking to you then i'm gonna do that. yeah. on my side. awesome. look here he has this disadvantage and you with it also has the voltages, either confusing. got the thing you ever hear me? yeah. what i got, but now they were ultimately of the opinion that is their risk to take fundraising, quote, get that what mine is, mike doesn't understand is a slo didn't city is the sights of mercury poisoning. these can include mental emotional disease, the serious condition that can lead to paralysis, neurological disorders and local research. doctor. previously ledger team to carry out testing on 10 individuals in secretaries. now the results of back to naturally concentrations in the safe threshold is 1200000. none of the people tested within the safe threshold. no,

no account minus samples came back 26.7 times high. as in the safe level. mckinney, who used to be a minor, registered 9.8 time type, his child 5.3 times the safe level. casual roman's result showed you reading that was 12.7 times higher. while his baby boy nice, you recorded full times, the safe level, the what you get from the additional things to quote those. uh so i'm say that the result is very, very well, i mean, and that we should be very concerned about this. the test results back up the initial findings is a cognitive examinations. the 1st clinical assign usually happen within 5 years.

for example, the capability of this month or the nation is being being effective. the 2nd phase of symptoms often much most of the patients can present with opens a new or logical decline that, that yeah, the severity depends on how much mercury is in the body and the person's resistance to mercury, which varies highly and senior. some of the naturally poisoning is more likely to impacts children and severely along these idea by you need them. you have, i'm using your law here. i mean, yes and up i'm going to baby is born that has been exposed to mercury bundle. they may look normal, you know, i hear the word, they may have defects depending on the disorder that occurred during the development of the babies organs. and the wound up on the side unless i buy a supplement book on, on the of the children of the secretary of the results from the tests. and other

available evidence would strongly suggest that the severe illness is being caused by mercury. in such a scenario of international experts advise immediate action such as the evacuation of polluted areas. in reality, this is unlikely to happen here. the n g is of not giving out to in low bulk. they've introduced a new method of extracting gold from the old by using mills that make use of cyanide instead of not to be the table by 2 co operative filter processing plant. so cyanide is extremely poisonous. the residual danger of environmental buildup is low compared to match a name and as

a data on investment, the other ones you this, diana, do some process is much safer, because when cyanide is mixed with water, it immediately breaks down into nitrogen. and again, it's actually safe for the environment, just a minute. i'm on what legal in my godaddy when the miners were using the mercury process, but they only yielded 20 grams of gold. you have been a little somebody did on salt when they used to sign edition, they yielded 60 to a 100 grams of gold. that's what got them interested process. yeah, he does. he does on the ground execution prove tricky that the process works. directing gold using mercury is a quick process to put it only takes 2 to 3 hours to get the gold well done site. but the guys that would sign addition can take 72 hours or 3 days to get the gold see. yeah. the how do you that's not the only 100 minus like fast rahman, usually whole as most to sac civil, also mountain each day. but processing with cyanide, requires

a huge amount of will in one go. ideally a 150 facts. even if individual minus could have for the weight, the cost of extraction is too high. the to potential rewards of scaling a ton to sing the products of informal goals minus or over indonesia could be huge . but to achieve this, the government has many obstacles to overcome the escape when that gets, even though the 2025 target is 100 percent, it's met curious to frame. the fact is that to make sure he is still being used in the field on talking the supply of mercury is one possible solution for funding by a government should strictly prohibit cinnabon mining and not issue permits has been stronger. international regulations may help. so one shortcoming or the

minimum of the convention in respect of small scale mining is that the treaty regards this mining as a allowed use for america positions should be the other way around, that mercury should be banned. thirty's naturally continues to be so originally used by gold minors or this black markets and not shut down. ultimately, it is the youngest generation and the generations who come off to them, the little pay the heaviest price of lot. but if you can give me another job begins and you can fit me from by using it so i can give me another job. begins that i just have yeah. the

bathroom, but as i said, the car condition. so i'll do my best to keep my son health and you want to die. yeah, and i say, i know he's normal kid. yeah. but i'm still grateful. he was born on a model. yeah. the do i just, i was so body asked about the out of funds. i hope myself to have to be healthy soon. the

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