we take the or out by the second. try not to make it too heavy so you can walk. on it. how much do you earn a month. it depends on the buy there are times you make two and a half to three million that's twelve hundred euros because the mind is rich you can even make four or five million. good middle here the gold miner works hard for fifteen days to one month miss and then he goes out and in one week spends it all on drink on women and passions be

everything he made in a month. the good news. is to look good with you ok. that is why in a place so rich there is such great poverty. often the mines are a stone's throw away from homes the residents dig wherever they think they can get lucky. up out of the depths of this one hundred ten meters forty five degrees.

for the time being we haven't reached the vein we're getting closer to us by then production will be twenty grams a load. they were rich it will have a good yield. we can provide for our families as well as for many people here in our neighborhood. but we know in which places there are gold plains. we go there and it worked i'm going to on title land which isn't. belongs to the multinationals. illegal mines sprout up everywhere each week. the citizens who have succumbed to gold rush fever quickly try to exploit the high prices.

here no one has titles to the land. the entire region belongs to ground colombia gold recently bought from tino gold mines which went bankrupt. all the large mines of the area and the processing facilities were sold by the government to the canadian multinational for just two hundred million dollars. so frontino gold mines here and sit go via has proven gold reserves of over nine hundred thousand ounces. supply nine hundred thousand ounces by today's price of gold at the let's say at one thousand five hundred dollars to me going to that would be an astronomical amount you know because i can't get this multiplication out of my mind. and then along comes the government. who donates the mines at the humiliating price of two hundred million dollars just

because this is truly scandalous. look i will explain it to you sometimes my wife buys shoes which she thinks are cheap and i think are expensive. so you must give numbers and explain what is cheap in comparison to other mines globally. how much they were bought for with how many reserves etc. one. thing you know they don't produce anything only opinions not facts nor. the union says that the sale was illegal it claims that all the property of frontino was conceded in writing to the thousands of workers of the company by the former bosses who in this way paid salaries pensions and insurance in kind in the. to the state is selling something it doesn't own in colombia we call this villainy and overt. get big but if they can say that elvis presley lives that charlemagne

was a jew whatever they like but i have a title and that's the difference. the government supports foreign investment of but. so much so that the canadian multinational made a former colombian minister of foreign affairs the company's president. is this something bad is there some gap in the colombian legal system which doesn't allow a member of government to work. she might have inside information. that's not certain that the president of the company was minister of foreign affairs she doesn't have any knowledge of mental energy that you know of course she is learning a lot quickly because she is smart when she left the aruban government. and another meter where the same to her.

fellow. guerrillas are active. so org. group of former paramilitaries that astro was. finally the envy ghetto office is also in operation here it is a drug cartel founded after the death of powerful escobar by his men it is a war of all against all for territorial control the more territory controlled the more mines exploited this is seventeen gang members of the restaurant hearse were killed today in the battle with foreign insulter in calcutta province up there thirty to set the battle was to claim areas in the mountains owner of the aren't you a municipality when i meant that you also want to see feel that he'd. goal is not evidence substance that it's legal. is that attracts illegal groups

a loss which he got his. leg out of the new one during money through gold is easy would be it. is going to risk less is the look on the scope of the illegals buy gold or all minus a door to you if you want and then they take it to the municipality and get it legalized as a number of as legal merchandise but it brings profits to the local authorities which will be divided among the politicians who are doing this and thus there will be support from the municipality. all the ordinary gold miners must pay protection to the armed groups active here in order to work. fear keeps everyone silent insignia they have a saying flies don't enter into closed mouth. i've heard that regular miners must pay protection to all the armed groups active fear is that correct. they will meant that you know at the moment i don't know anything about that no one has come

to me at all and i don't know. no to. those munitions we give two million a month to fark he says then there is also the envy got office. rojas and organized crime i restored the restaurant to the end we got office celia going up or pay protection with a percentage of the gold you know to get on board one panel he or she would own as if they were also partners in the mine has anything left over i don't care something is left you know not much erin but something this is how we've come to operate on a hundred people because otherwise it would be impossible to work. because either they will make you leave people in a city not almighty you or your family one kid will whoever they want.

still i mean i step into the mine is poor they don't care that much as you are going to study custom but if the man is rich with good production this thing is a kind of when they visit you all the time did you know and get involved in your business if you. bought only a few of their own profit and as well as their organizations national not because in this area enormous amounts of money are exchanged intentionally going to deploy economic power leads to answers. system going to establish themselves permanently in the area. the government accuses the small town miners of feeling the bloody civil war. president santos this is another serious reason to eliminate them over the. every day the secret services of the state that you have along with the ministry of

mines and energy as you know the country. that this activity doesn't fuel the conflict i mean you know i mean you know you know people are going very you know in order to prevent it's going to go on as we have done up to now. the special police unit is in charge of hunting down the illegal gold miners. poor peasants watch helicopters landing in the middle of nowhere. noise it's not that we the small miners fund the illegal groups as the government says he will in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. but we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups. because the state doesn't protect us you know the police and security forces did their job we wouldn't be obliged to pay for protection. so those.

here they do the opposite they fight as they search for us humiliate us and throw us off our own land so they can surrender it all to the in multi-nationals. or ben takes the or which comes out of the my. into the mills to get it pulverized . the cylinders contain metal spheres. cyanide is added to the earth as this helps extract the gold. cyanide is especially toxic and in large concentrations lethal. it was used in the nazi gas chambers. and gerbils and eva brown all committed suicide with the

substance during the cold war period both the us and the us s. r. stockpiled it in their chemical arsenals. the solution ends up on this mechanical table which with its sloping movement separates the gold from the earth. the yellow is gold right now it's still going down covered in dirt i'm excited because this is what we search for to live. closer is that so much as i can which are called on it will be me. what kind of foreign policy could the world expect from a romney administration his supporters claimed he would restore america's are.

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i go via all the gold miners use mercury to make the process faster and easier. in every mill we throw in this amount of mercury look around my road this summer this will gather the gold we only put this much in need. will come and see how i will do this i. i thought i got i think a book about a mile away thank her carry is especially toxic to the environment and to humans. damages the brain and central nervous system i

thank . god there's a what's left of the process in a small container i mercury has the property of dissolving an amalgam mating with gold i stopped by the mercury captures the gold the monoplane the only thing left for his eco to do is now to gather it up into a cloth and strain it i wonder how much is this gold worth i know man i don't have and this is worth twelve million or four thousand seven hundred fifty euros i.

every friday rabanne gathers the sediment from the whole week and cleans it carefully for hours. the fact. this is the result. all he needs to do now is to drive.

those two hundred grams. how much earth does it take to produce this amount. and all of them again no thought about it but i estimate fifty tons. of the only thing left to do is to get to the gold shop of donya myra down in town . today the two hundred grams were sold for ten million pesos or about three thousand nine hundred euros nowadays ruben ennis thirty eight partners are earning more than ever. in order to sell the gold z. kill needs to first get rid of the mercury which is stuck to the precious metal.

they must burn it off and there are dozens of little shops in the center of town which do that i mercury is released into the atmosphere when burned and when it rains it falls on to homes fields rivers and lakes i said is the town most polluted by mercury in the world according to the world health organization with measurements up to one thousand times above acceptable levels. but it's a very dangerous job. that men everyone who works with mercury must get treatment but that you know because you have mercury in your system and my brother has it and must keep on getting

treatment. it's the easiest process for getting the gold out of that into. them but everything else is much more difficult. yet i don't know if there's another method you won't find here here mercury is used by the ton of other. there's already an ecological catastrophe. which was triggered by small scale metallurgy. also. we have the greatest concentrations of your curing nor what is not at all logical. is the alternative proposed by this government.

and generally by the governments of latin america to have large organized responsible mining companies which are on the stock market that there is no such thing to be already has large scale metallurgy and our analyses all show an enormous like a responsibility. columbia pollute the environment. no gran colombia pollutes the environment twenty to thirty times less than the average illegal miner. can get. you know a little bit in the middle we have some pollution like all companies and you know which however is within the parameters of colombian laws and international ones is . there a year there will be. the

effluent from the grand columbia gold factory along with the waste of the small miners falls into a small ravine which is so toxic that it is acquired name everyone calls its cyanide ravine. on its banks gold diggers process to waste one more time trying to find gold in the poisoned waters nor in the dangers of all. that i mean if the mine works we make money with your handle i'd like to. add this work has always taken place here. and a lot of people live off this went to pertain extracting gold i could have went up on. and is there gold where. naturally if there wasn't

we wouldn't work. and if they work it again and again and there's always gold left even what we throw away contains gold. so what happens in the cyanide ravine isn't pollution from. this pollution. ok since cyanide falls into the ravine it's bullish better but it's profit to be profitable. december's my we know it damaging the environment but this is how we end our bread that. i. am i.

despite the reactions of the citizens of mar matto the government is planning to relocate them in order to open the way form a doro new open pit mine. the justification for this used by the government is a landslide which took place in two thousand and six it claims of the population is in a high danger zone which means they must be moved to a safer area. despite the fact that state services confirmed that the situation is reversible if interventions are made to the mountain in nearby el johnno the government is already building a hospital modern school compound and houses for the new residents. the door has stated that it will help fund the building program. didn't look a little better yes we must talk to the women and tell them that in your new house you have

a washer and dryer and you don't need to go to the ravine to wash the clothes so they can have roads a good hospital get a place to study and be done in the wood. and the work at the mall could be the work is crucial we will create many jobs they're open to that. but not everyone will have ork nobody will get work to many people triple. the great. when spanish conquistadores arrived in colombia in the sixteenth century they felt they had found the mythical el dorado. in amazement they bore

witness to a ritual at play quite heavy to near modern day bogota in which the leader of the movie sky was naked and covered with gold dust through enormous amounts of gold into the water as an offering to the gods. the hunt for the new eldorado is in full swing. you know that someone once said to us in a knowing way that we had sinned but having such a rich land weeks and days in the past and i think it was the colonizers who wanted to take out fertile land i live. now but what they even a little land we still have less than the number of them as it is a target of the multinational his local is by this or this tiny piece of land we. i let it slip that in that we have from head to defend without a lot i'm one of them and on this we have a very clear. what

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