as also now coming up next off of the break, we have a document 3 on illegal gold mining in indonesia. and don't forget you can always get the latest on our website. you definitely will talk. com. i'm good. i spent a june believe the driven by greece in the 2000 storage of band engaged in various high risk business practices raised for ever higher profit. and then the epic, the mind of a gentleman institution. the darcia thong story starts may 2nd on the w lumber. indonesia of tyler dies

island. the tools over a 1000000 to is to you get beneath that, spokane, it kills is a hidden treasure gold. and that's why the island has one of the densest populations of gold miners in indonesia, south east asia is biggest go to produce but this industry is fueled by a deadly for don't use much of it yet, but we won't get to go one group of medical they could kill and make you a health problem for 10 percent. some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of my mind, and my dad adds the talks and is spreading for the opposite. the level at which you have to evacuate. auto sales, quasi luxury, is how you're totally regulated, multi $1000000000.00 goes mining industry. how did this make sure we get here?

why is it being used to 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 sacred tone. 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, locals out to the down now started with seizures, and now he's constantly drooling where he's worried that 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. thank god bless. and we all know that mercury poisoning has terrible repercussions and there is no cure. then it's a for the air. how many were you exposed to lots of mercury before she was born data? medically? yes. e, and what does the season started when she was one lady down the going from nevada. she's also have data wash off nancy that the plus what i'm worried about not to re somebody because you hear a lot about. it's a fact that the medical people off by get the exposure to matthew. of course,

it was a simple and even state to how this is well documented was previous. major disasters serving is 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 to 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 goals, mining and loan book started around 15 years ago when locals specials. and they'll put you in a t large binding company found. and lots deposits in lumber local

people started to think about, oh, if that was gold for large scale for obee can get the small scale one. so they thought they could get, you know, the crumbs from the big guys just had even been in full mining, took off, eventually producing more goals than corporate mining companies. up until now the gold mining activities, especially the small scale illegal, illegal and illicit. normally secretary of about the work to day 19 a has agreed to share his story. and i must say a part of what i 95 by i live the long. well, my name is got to the unique i was born in the class, so i'll go to yeah, yeah. and i did a lot of difficult to work in the fresh air was efficient and my goal is to do how to load and off when i say no, i just wanted to sort of sounds so long as i chose to become a millionaire, lily, because like it doesn't have to be here to

the middle, but on top of that i have to pay my equipment before i leave the house because love love which lights out of my mining tools. and by the way yeah, this to the trip then take 2 hours. but it's getting late to fit to hurry to work a lot of those i my whole family and some including my uncles and other relatives. i have real gold miners just like me. my new, the idea depend on the,

was that us and i feel a sense of joy when i get to the personality that followed us that makes any of the, the color all the people i work with. so i'm like, my brothers the sold out to the follow up. so i do laurie west. that's not true. yeah, the, an estimate is 22000 people in lumber, depend on small scale gold mining to earn a living. excavations precariously from the steep mountain side is social dominance personal mine. but he doesn't go to that. the, it's currently is a 16 meters deep is naturally small frame and must to the pills 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. a low oxygen level of intense heat falling wilkes flash floods and gas leaks when that talks about tools of a few of the risks. only recently, if i told them and blocks out due to a lack of oxygen along good us, i'm just not on. my god, i'm standing by my colleagues thought i was there. you know what i mean? again, i'll go ahead and add that for me. i need somebody to put

this pull, the color of this rock is white. that's good department. and then they're also greens and realize it has black veins. you've got 9 to left standing that very good. but the wheels angel begins with fast hold on and we tons has now he was process seal to extract the gold and met to be is the key component. yeah. and then the final i get home by the pound, the, or from the mountain into small pieces is that the lawyer is that the little. but the, in the rocks are placed in the 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 color, the, the, the it is pulled into the bowl nails to bind with a go the mouth to eat is then burned away, leaving behind fuel gold and poisonous fumes and finally, the toxic waste whole time is discard each 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 or without using good you right? by the name of the i phoned all i know i to 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 disease which is a serious condition leading coma analysis. death 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 informal miners like federal ron in indonesia, moco baby produced like this, that informal mining operations to complicate matches the minus pulling mills often located near a local realtor filters. the contaminated waste water. then find its way into drinking wells. rice patties and the rivers and scenes where people

fish, causing open leafy and like one level. but i've accomplished uh simple to pick. i uh, research conducted by several universities such as my thought, i'm university. sure, the mercury is present in festivals and fruit and other food production in lumber are falling into. that's where you put them all to 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. it also spreads to other places. what do you live with? and i knew that some of that may be something that i might have sent them, but then i am. but that smells 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 it online,

you can't escape it and nothing happened. data naturally does not break down in the environment to move or to fused to move is accumulates, building up in the food chain. the today, federal rahman is a happy a, you know, i'm saying is a tape. i think it's about half a graph that's was around $300000.00 group adams, but outside siad on the left of the data. i'm thrilled. that smells and twice the amount in daily is efficient. but what costs will this comp? so 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 the 1st and part of china is told to have died off to consuming mandatory in his pursuit of immortality. he was not the last abraham lincoln, the pirates, king black beard, and isaac needs all the to have suffered from that can be poisoning in the 20th century map. can we continue to be used in medicines like boats? some moment to this cause metrics move within the 1950s a much we leak as a factory in the seaside town has 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 often the title regulations around the world. by 2013 a global treaty, the minimum conventional met to a was born. today, $99.00 countries, including indonesia, rectified the convention, mandating them to protect the citizens from the dangers of this deadly metal. yet, this trench continues the level as a result of gold mining. not sure to use headstrom c p employees. and that is a size and a complication. so they've been now on the some of this on medical difficulties

diagnosing that jury poisoning is the symptoms of similar to those of other diseases. how about medically, who would not treat binds to another exception of the symptoms that appear very similar to those of many in your logical disorders lane? that's how they get a number of tests on needed to ensure the symptoms are really due to mercury poisoning with the alignment and use of previously collected samples in long bulk. but the efforts with enough extensive concerned with his active action today, doctor is leading a team to conduct bio mancha testing. that's the community. what if i've seen? yeah, uh, kind of nice problem consensus old. we have to find out just how big the problem is . first on that list,

especially rahman and his pharmacy. said debra fat viani do. hello sir. my name is dr. de la. my areas of innovation is a mining hot spot. and just in my center, we want to monitor people's health and the impact of the match or re hook on. we would like to test you, your wife and our child is to be on the physical cognitive test to carry it out. did you take these signs of poisoning doing the same? is it less with them? 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, let me move to here. to fill out the chase of metal units, j. m a more tingling sensation maybe that and that yes, sometimes the sounds like how

long does the child including uncontrollably? again, sometimes it last for 2 or 3 days. then the team takes half and to nail south pools. yeah, let me do that. and since i got released to been examined by the daughters, they let me show the tag that i'll get the investigation continues with a search from that curia need. and the last moment this is a new mix portable mercury analyzer that they are not they use device allows us to measure the mercury in the air at a specific location that us out a lot. so you know, approximate the analyzer generates results immediately a reading about 1000 is considered safe. significantly going forward.

but here's the results of what? $8657.00. the uh, function that i see medically mercury concentration in the around this ball mill is between a $110000.00 planograms per cubic meter. isn't 88210002 the number of where you have to evacuate? if i don't see this, i am not based on these results. i feel that mr. fucking ramon in his family's health are endangered in time. yes, you are totally taken aback because if he could reach 10000 with uh, empower initial findings indicate that to them on as hell sessions. so, but that's the number of exams show that the coordination is the left and right. there's many of them come on. well,

about and some of them from disability to coordinate fine motor skills is so slow up and the average person, that's it. that is all man. uh we can see there already some issues some about uh other than one memo. but the tests may have come too late for 5 for robin's son. i thought possible while i'm on the bus went well long as i got on the last possible loans as to how they did a lot of daylight to us at home the i realized he didn't want to suckle side that as i kept him home to take i don't mean that bundle on or plastic hope to talk to right away for helping a young people the doctor took

a biopsy to investigate the issue. the problem was it is in testing or something. yeah. they would not function properly. yeah. might be so they could not bear mind due to his deformed and test gains, special darling's child is on able to move his files. instead, the excrement needs to be sent out through a tube on a daily basis. these out, i'm done by any get that. yeah, the doctor told me how to treat as i can only myself, my wife can carry out the procedure on yeah. about by the unable. yeah. i guess that this can only be a temporary fix. the, again, any that i'm going to see is expose to mercury via time of a little behind the baby's, susceptible to molecular genetic changes where instead of getting it b. yeah, that can lead to an amount of t as the organs phone. but i'm looking for the front of them, but no problem with that. what am i scanned as

a search and said he needs to be operated on the same time, but i don't have the money because i don't have insurance costs around 30000000 groups. yes, a bundle. it's a deal with the i don't have that kind of money. no, cuz i have the these trials, illness is less defensive, around 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 get, you know, those codes. you'd be a start. if you did pass the results might provide on some of those, test it

a number. it is just a microcosm. the 4th remains a wide spectral across much in indonesia, the in west reset the data alone, probably $1000.00 ton a year. 1000 tons of memory, one drop of medical, they could kill and, and make you make your health problem. but we're talking about 1000 tons, grams and all over indonesia, 3500 tons the, the, the health issues faced by central rom annuities. finding a nurse unique to them,

but in many countries as opposed to doing informal mind. also using metrics to extract in asia. the problem is to, to the most run point in indonesia where they're over $850.00 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 use? no. is it that or at least $300000.00 minus, using met to in indonesia. each of them uses up to 20 parts and that to me, to every possible goal. because this is a problem to the indonesian government who has committed internationally to deal

with mercury f 115. and i'm, i thought you submitted a mazda convention is a binding international agreements, and then the countries that aims to protect human is on the environment from the dangers of met jerry 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 like the adoption of alternative technologies for gold processing and the tougher enforcement news is also recommend that the production of met to reach the b stone. this starts with the preservation of the mining of an old, cold cinema 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. so 1st is to stop the extraction or mining of single bar including the smelting and the process to produce medically from the or and the 2nd is prohibitive. the cell trade of mercury, including exportation mining and we're finding signal in indonesia is not against the little if you have a pony. 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 prospering. today's price, $3500.00 tons of met to

a could be was over $370000000.00 us dollars. the where did this in of our or come from colors according to my information, to send a volcano from setup island into the most. and i'm 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 administrative environment and forestry think it was used to comment on the elicit mercury 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 august 2022. the blue tags hides the mining activity of machinery that allow mine is to excavate to send about old local journalists, a trying to expose this illegal activities the to someone's i was going to the mountain to find the scent of all my new number. so yeah, my name is reese, the, i'm a journalist given the lease saturday and i am in my daily reporting. so comes primarily the environment on an indigenous people. and i look north malika, you must have had that the model good on my local data that i

want to document the mining activities for them to come independent sources. so like yeah, on the muscle because i love them. it's very difficult to get in. like i say, so i have to be very careful because i love either very distrusting of generally just because they can expose the information to the public. this illegal mining still exist as somebody like telling me much. i wish long try to get protection from the village head whether mine is situated, but failed to get inside. they don't want the media to expose their mind to tools the central mind that a new open up about people who receive brian chicago to somebody to find that's widely believed by police officers are involved who i think the best way to do. but then practically shot felt responsible in person can phone

the structure like imagery, the film, the following, his move out of food. and i found the minus 10 to 12 here in the middle of the mountains near about 1000 meters above sea level. that are good again. so today, due to the close of tents been set up on the cliff, there was no wave activity would go on most thousands of tents not. and it's impossible not to notice them. this raises the question, even with the southern counties, a coordinating cup, hunting, applying di attempts to shut down the mines. what publicized in the media in 20172020. but as resign found out, these attempts have failed. and did the memo. this class that they were still

active cinnabon mining and indian cm needed for, and so it's due to a couple of things. it to me i discussed being we know inforcement and back on who can get out of my 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 believe to be some of the purists in the world. this creates an alluring opportunity for those with intentions. so full i don't. yeah. and if i'm a gun, but those the number least, the discovery as in a bar and sit around and the other parts of eastern indonesia where there's been a bar about indonesia has become an ex border of mercury and even the largest supporter. yes. do you mind? yeah, buying this out of all the books are being a daddy that, that be so sorry. based on the dates or i have compilers get some new kind of officials appear to be involved in

a go i such has been some couple me sign. yeah. and yeah, i suppose these come with me not got this guy. we traced quotes documented just come in on the line you. nathan napa and discovered a shipment of synagogue had been delivered using an engine easy and a national armed forces truck with a driver. and i remember play g, and then i found a movie, then you've got some more than a blend up. i can get with somebody. then i'm, i also found a court ruling and numbers 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 teaching for vogel and john, by the day constantly on the move to evade detection a no response believes that there are also refineries on several items.

yeah. some of that out there is activity that they have the results on the top to disease or distillation, where they got the, the gun. on the last, 8 of them was the influx of domestic mercury. indonesian gold miners now have a plentiful supply of the toxic metal traditionally, so through a middle man, it's currently available on social media platforms, like facebook, west sellers provide delivery right to the miners 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. mine is full of indonesia. this is welcome news to the minus inspector tongue rumbled by the majority of the population. a reliant on goes mining for anything.

just one gram as goal is, was very hawks. the usual monthly minimum wage not cold findings in poultry because there's no other one come to you some more. so you can only mine here in secretary cut off by you if you don't use mercury while you call and get the cold among the even if you could see the golden rule, i couldn't get into it without them last night about the, the not 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. i get that the and when we went to the field, we trying to educate the miners when it gets out while i'm on medical to use a little uh, some of the way that they know that mercury is very toxic. i think i didn't, but they don't want to be banned from using and i won't be allowed on little enough . i'm including. so when we try to talk to them and educate them. uh,

they turned against the line. yeah. the i yeah, and i'm talking to you then i'm not gonna do that. yeah. how much i don't expect to cure. he has this disadvantage and do 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 slight a 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 that's what research i talked to previously, the other team to carry out testing on 10 individuals in secretary. now the results of back to naturally concentrations in hand to face 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 times high. his child $5.00 times the safe level. casual romance result showed you reading that was 12.7 times higher. while his baby boy nice you recorded full time is 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 loud. 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 are often much most of the patients can present with opens area on your logical decline. that, that yeah, the random daddy disability depends on how much mercury is in the body and the person's resistance to mercury, which varies highly in seeing if that might be. mercury poisoning is more likely to impacts children and severely fell on your side. yeah. by you need them, you have time. you're saying allow here. i mean yes and up i'm in a baby is born that has been exposed to mercury and i know they may look normal. you know, i hear the word. they may have dfcs 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 for the children and the secretary of the results from the test. since other

available evidence would strongly suggest that the severe illness is being caused by mercury. in such a scenario of international aspects advise immediate action such as the evacuation of polluted areas. in reality, this is unlikely to happen here. the n g is not given up. so 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 that 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 me

a minute. so data on investment, the sign in addition process is much safer, because when cyanide is mixed with water, it immediately breaks down into nitrogen. and again, it's actually stay for the environment and the, uh, what i mean when, when i got the, when the miners were using the mercury process, but they only yielded 20 grams of gold. you have been a little something painted on salt when they used sign edition, they use that 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. the process on that part which directing gold using mercury is a quick process to put it only takes 2 to 3 hours to get the gold was done separately. got debit sign edition 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. what rahman? usually whole as most 2 sacks of will 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 afford the weight, the cost of extraction is too high, the to potential rewards up skilling 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. escape when that gets, even though the 2025 talk it is 100 percent, it's mercury and free because the fact is that demetrius is still being used in the field on talking the supply of mercury is one possible solution for funding by a government should strictly prohibits into bon lining and so not the issue. permits is even stronger international regulations may help. so one shortcoming

of the minimum of the convention in respect of small scale mining is that the treaty regards this mining as a allowed use for mercury positions should be the other way around. that mercury should be banned, produced naturally continues to be so originally used by goals, minor, a def black markets and not shut down. ultimately, it is the youngest generation and the generations who come off to them to pay the heaviest price, blah, blah blah. if you can give me another job begins and you can separate me from isaac, sit on the give me another job. begins that i just have yeah. the

we have one, but as i said i'll card condition. so i'll do my best to keep my son hillside. you want to die diagnose i as i know he's normal kid. yeah. but i'm still grateful. he was born on a model. yeah. they do, i just, i have also, but a lot of friends, i hope my son to have to be healthy soon. the

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