Blacksmith Institute - Mercury: The Burning Issue (Part 2)

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What is the connection between the gold you wear and the mercury-contaminated seafood on your plate? This video helps to explain it all. It documents Blacksmith Institute's project in Indonesia to reduce mercury poisoning from the gold mining process.
At least a quarter of the world's total gold supply comes from artisanal gold mining. UNIDO (The United Nations Industrial Development Organization) estimates that artisanal gold mining results in the release of an estimated 1,000 tons of toxic mercury per year, which constitutes about 30% of the world's mercury emissions.
Some 15 million gold miners, including 4.5 million women and 600,000 children, are poisoned by direct contact with toxic mercury. In addition, mercury rises and travels, dropping into rivers, oceans and seas, contaminating seafood far and wide.
Blacksmith is working with UNIDO's Global Mercury Project in Senegal, Indonesia, Mozambique, and Cambodia.
This video shows how Indonesian miners use mercury to release small amounts of gold. It also showcases a solution that has been introduced to the miners - a simple retort that can recapture mercury used in the gold mining process. This retort has been successful in reducing the amount of toxic mercury emissions.
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@JayakumarJayakumar-s7f 6 месяцев назад

Respected sir I think there is not necessary to burn and evoperate mercury for getting gold as for my KNOLEDGE it canable to solve this mercury poinoning and palluting the atmosphere may it posible to solve this problems. Thanks U

@John-tk1in 10 лет назад

that's a great thing you are doing with those retorts, good job.

@hootinouts 4 года назад

It only goes to prove one thing: the selfish, short-sighted greed of mankind prevails at every level of society. Here we have the "poor" prospector in some third world country just trying to get by and feed his family but at the same time is poisoning his own environment that will injure not only himself but his own offspring for generations to come. But his lust for "paydirt" far outweighs and his concerns for protecting his children, grandchildren and their children. This is exactly what we all expect from big industry but it's no different in a backwater one-man operation. Live for yourself and screw everyone else's health.

@flamedrag18 13 лет назад

it's interesting that they only go to metal bars for the grinding process, you'd think they would go progressively smaller medium, like tungsten ball bearings, ect to get the sand to a powder and so on.

@jaryH3 14 лет назад

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

@alizaderic 13 лет назад

Thank you for all your hard work in Kalimantan. I have been shocked at the way mercury is used there, the health and envir. hazards. Progress is being made. Oh, I am a northern california placer miner and mine owner. We don't use mercury. It is just one way. There are better other ways to go. We are a non-chemical mine, sometimes referred to as a "green mine."

@Gennys 8 лет назад

I'd love to know what the current situation is there now; have you been back and are you helping with getting the cleaner systems up and running?

@hairullah0974 5 месяцев назад

Lokasi dimna ya pak klo boleh tau

@x2thebox 13 лет назад

@flamedrag18 If you leave the bars in there long enough, you'll crush whatever you want to as small a size as you desire. If you notice, putting the 'covers' on the rotating drums isn't exactly a 'snap.' My guess is, they only use the bars b/c putting the lid on the drum is a hassle and if they let the drum rotate long enough, they'll get what they want.

@aqisugb9080 10 месяцев назад

Kita bisa beli raksa dsana bang

@rogermestler1753 6 месяцев назад

going on since before recorded time

@suryachannel8854 4 года назад

Di mana bisa beli alat itu

@benglenda911 13 лет назад

where can i buy this retort in the philippines or can you send me the design of this retort so i can give this to my friend who are using mercury to refine gold. thank you so for the information and more power.

@hootinouts 4 года назад

Is your friend also going to eat the fish downstream of the mercury laden runoff?

@budiy8187 4 года назад

Kalimantan Desa mangkahui.

@Frifler888 11 лет назад

the World has gone mad!!! indonesia is one of the most beautifull country in the World and see what they are doing with it!!! How did they did it in Persia, or in egypt 3000 ago where there werent any Mercury...!!?

@anthonynguyen4568 10 лет назад

Mercury has always existed...lol

@x2thebox 13 лет назад

@s4a4v4y Please, I'll speak for Pam. I shot the rarest subspecies of polar bear known to man. The beast was sent to China, where underfed children hand stitched it. To be honest, it's a lovely addition to my constantly growing collection, but I'll probably wear it once. That said, the fur coat goes perfectly well with my Indonesian gold necklace. My only regret is that my massive gold chain lacks more blood (conflict) diamonds on it.

@5272paul 3 года назад

That’s a lot of gold. 10 kg of amalgam is approximately 3 kilos of gold and you’d think certainly enough money for the shithead boss’s to supply their own retorts