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stay with us. me. hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around johannesburg, south africa's most populous city. but they aren't a natural phenomenon. they are mine tailing, waste heat left over from south africa, hugely profitable golden industry. many also said to be dangerously, talks like a wash with heavy metals poisoned and radioactive debris. with expert health, french journalists must have to do is getting the content to find typically analyzes but one night while he waits for the results, he gets a mysterious voice mail message. hello, my name's i heard that you are interested in the mining legacy around around 200, but you know, mind dumps. well, i work those in the little mental geologist for

a while. so would very much appreciate if you can, if you can come around if we can have a word about it. thank you very much. the message is from a geologist, eagle club chick. after 20 career in the mining industry, he's now left disgusted by the industries failure to had his warning about dealing with it twice. i'll tell you what i find particularly scandalous to take the worst possible material, which is uranium grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into place where people live. this is because colossal you bad idea. when you, when you said that, when were you doing repose? when you listen, that's fine. i have written lots of reports. i must have some sort of recording and answered emails probably over over a 100. so after a while, you know, i was explained, look what you are proposing costs money. i mean,

1st of all you have to become the contaminate, the land. that is number one, number 2, you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from them with a, just a few percent of cement. and you can get rid of tailings this way. you see it basically put it to normal. you put it back to where it was, how does it make you feel when you see it is local community is complaining about their, their health problem. what does that make you feel like you feel like a murder? what we have done, like i said, we have created an enormous environmental disaster. if we let you know growing potatoes and we made environmental disaster along the side, it would be different. we will say, okay, we are feeding the nation. well, the gold mining industry do it in reached a small percentage of people. so we have produced gold, which is the most useless thing in the whole world. it feeds human greed. it has no uses. and yet we have made in probably one of the biggest environmental disasters

in the world. so yes i do. i do feel like like a murderer. as eagles disturbing, one thing can master heads back to see pharma, eric from goma. you go to the signs of radioactive poisoning. now the test results for the animals of being delivered in person by frank vendor, the johannesburg professor of a foreign mental studies. so i wanted to know about what we're doing. my name is frank franklin, the professor has come to see eric livestock, france, l u c. i. 7 the test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated eric's on the other line and uranium isn't the only problem. for example, manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your,

in your water sample over 2000 times. what would, what one would find initial water sources? redo her. we do have nico being elevated a 1000 times. we also need to elevate 50 times ends inc as well. sounds and $500.00 time. ok the most, let's say, indicative middle for mining impact, that is uranium in those tailings. it is about 10 times what you would see in a natural environment 10 times as much. so what do what you and the less in your water you did about a 100 times more than one would find it and polluted natural 15 water softener in a farm surrounded by pollution its animals badly contaminated it's disturbing news. the hair of your goat shows the highest level of or so overall analyze metals. okay. you see uranium is

60 times for elevator, but all the lead is elevated to 80 times the meaning almost 100 times of buffer. it's normal. it's the same was cobalt that the same was also nixie and $600.00 times for nickel. but maybe you would, you didn't know and no dishonest. okay. alright. i can have order. yes, you can have, it's all yours for you. my, that was that us when a linen down at right for you, fleming, farm y, livestock die prematurely in township, where children have your logic to disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits . but all the medical links between poor health and mining. so clear cut staff at the free local health clinic might have some among our patients is truly zulu. it's the 3rd time this month that the youngest son has taken ill.

the me i knew this was a little nothing my is not to go to his one because number no knew they way i for how easy the baby has called bronchitis was in both. sometimes we see was you get a child with a quote like the one that i just saw. she was having

a chest in drawings. because of the something that you will see on the verge. yes. the other day i have a number of cases. not really should be like you mentioning is that people who are leaving their minds if we get a lot of those we so i think definitely do we have to do in astonishingly the south african state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailing on the population can he catches up with too lazy to again, back and her township. at the foot of the mine and out collecting water, i get a good. all right. very heavy. so you have to do this every day. this is your house. okay. julie shall chat with her for children.

la la, la mazda i ramey, lynn. allah is in as zing love. i live fuzzy. says, be able to play lindsay. i'm up on the corner. quintinella the j couldn't. i couldn't last field up there. and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain, but not from the pollution truly zulu, and her children live only a few dozen meters from the mind them were earlier. last i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. she agrees to provide her sample to test what level of contamination. what ok, now, once i'm giving you that a new von song penny, director of the institute for research and scientific expertise, stroudsburg comes on line. you will do it on camino just give all going to

come under the commotion to pool or you know if and i'm just the low number. i don't want to think what i meant to do is yes, you could let me just kind of go measure sure. what did i say to you? i'm just right concern. alright, let's should be more than enough in school, both excited. you sounds good morning. my name is triple visors demo. linear. pretty sure. we don't like this

social when i do need to know that all right, perfect. matter has also taken a half from atlanta check and we made a little girl suffering from look at us. but i've taken done. i still look beautiful. ah. yeah. and then more 10 in total from other residents living near the maintaining and sent them by express mail to professor penny in france. once again, they'll be a few days of waiting for the results. in the meantime, martin is looking for gold. some of south africa's most profitable export is used

in the electronics industry. some of it is used for investment, but most of it ends up is jewelry. yet the websites of the world major luxury brands are curiously silent about the sources that they're gold you know from us, once you get off new or any of them came to respond to questions. sure. but it hasn't come to cut the young man's job because you don't know how good it was during your visit from us on monday. almost if you don't see it. but again in the community really don't want. i've been putting more money. you said to put it down, do indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide detailed where the gold comes from. military giving you call bustle, question the only the most italian brand bull gree is the 3rd largest dealer in the

world. and it certainly seems to be using a loss of gold. it's time to go shopping. book res headquarters. johanna are located in fountain city, among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent. in a luxurious shopping monet by the company displayed one of its finest pieces. a gold and diamond necklace, costing almost $70700.00. but again, no one here seems to know where the gold had been, so we want it, you know, with cheer in the gallery. you knew where the goal comes from. if you could talk about it of gold, gold, gold, you know, jewelry, have no idea. okay. don't you're thinking kind of surprising that you don't know where to go from. something that you should be able to tell you,

okay. of the of the consequences of mine, mine those are $2.00. for example, the ninety's is when you're driving in the charging job, but that just isn't that just stuff i protect up with the muscle. anyway. thank you very much. you're welcome. ah, back in a world overshadowed by the way stump, the south africa, the vast gold mining industry. when people are gathering in a church, a tiny, the activists has come from table with you. so to have all the children who has company must have taken protesting,

ah, ah, what have fred and even the national media present everyone wants to know what the scientists have computed. and thank you so much again for being here today. i really appreciate the fact that you've come quite a long way through to be here. run through the results cleaned from soil water and go samples. so then he calls in a struggle in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metals found in the human. had that been gathered out a lot on it. we don't always go to the bill dot all i renewed it sure was

really additional job really would go back to the show you do do do we don't do you guys just they don't do do do so when you will. they put you on a circle is what you would explain that you don't, don't, don't, don't do tube. no one of you sit down as, cuz i want to respect was it really orders? yeah, yeah, yeah. these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. or the other thing for your bill, which i don't, i don't, i don't those who i guess for sure. if you get a little talk today,

nick was taken together. the results and deeply disturbing the soil gathered by my from the mind tailings is full of heavy metals. the level of off neck, for example, is $330.00 times higher than the norm. the water is full of uranium, $100.00 times the international limit. the goats are infected that contains 83 times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailing. and as for the residence, some of the children show $64.00 times more exposure to lead 5 times more exposure to uranium. and 4 times more exposure to authentic than the average french person will be sent to the tv in the car. so what can we do for

you about the about the middle school, but usually don't do. do you mean miss separately? no, i don't . i don't think it was normal and this is not my fault. don't people that's it might be something needs to be we've had enough of this man's exposing us so, so we appealing to everybody once again to make sure that you're saying that there was a what you know, we flossing because of sufficient evidence,

but now what then documented to be busy doing know it literally, but people know what? oh, thank you very much. once again, my wife as residents begin planning, the next move including a possible legal claim against the mining companies. matter obtains an interview with the chamber of mine. the industry's association for some of south africa's most powerful mining consent truly pretty you don't. 6 if there are some would mean to look at the mean and i think you should want to missouri. amen. eckstein, to put it on the 20th,

almost a 120 years later, stephanie moved out runs that we're going to nations and pollution department offering for those issues. that the goal producing firms do not want to address individually. regarding the environmental impact of the mining industry, do you think it's it's going in the, on the right track on the good way years the, if significant good progress achieved the fall in terms of mining companies dealing effectively with environmental impacts. has the chamber of mine ever convicted human health impact assessment regarding the tidings mine tuning? not, not that on my way off. ok. so we've done some are some, some smack them then shows her letters the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township we never heard about the loan. ok.

what does that make you think now it's, it's quite containing for me and i think something should be done. do you think that the mining industry that you and presents have a responsibility in these numbers? i think it is. we our member companies mine? yes, we do have the responsibility. do you live close to the maintaining us? why not? if i may i mean most of the it's, i mean most of the, i mean those guys they fall in the table or not the other way around. they choose to go in. do you think people leave around to pay this stating this huge turnings around jennifer? do you think they're safe? they're not. they're not at all. there's a lot of environmental risks as well as safety risks. and why do you think it hasn't been clean over all these years of years to

something should be done for detailing that our own bell. and then when you, when you say something, do you think it's something what, what, what is it about eating the media and we have been taishan of those should get rid of the nice thing. we need an overall management strategy as the industry and obviously in partnership with government. the so what does the government have to say? south africa, the environment minister declines to be interviewed. and he's office said that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health, on the other hand, is very interested, but can leave a casting director of the national institute for occupational health 1006

from the mentally. this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels so much higher and that there would be negative health effects on the children. and really one of the real tragedies is that the study and why the money has not been prioritized. we need to make sure that minds and other workplaces don't continue to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. would you like a copy? oh, we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see be, don't have to be, we'd be, be, don't have it in. and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got higher levels of these different heavy metals and, and, and geranium, and go in more physical examination. do blood test to urine tests

and monitor their oh, the south african government will soon begin a major study on the health impacts of mining pollution. but time is of the essence . and 2017 mining companies extracted 130 tons of gold from south africa. producing 27000000, 600000 tons of supplementary waste. more waste will be produced next year, and the next one and the one after that. there are still 35 years remaining of exploitable goals with up in south africa. how many move victims will have to be in that time? people realize that life is more precious than gold. ah,

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