and with that, you're up to date up next we have a documentary on how legal gold mining in indonesia is poisoning people and the environment that story coming up after the break. i'm anthony, how do i have more news for you? at the top of the out? it's by the big ocean view companies play a role in the destruction of the rain forest. the letter for luxury cars awesome comes from illegal capital funds in the m as in yet the supply chains does matter to the view industry. the illegal of the stats may said on dw good lumber, indonesia a power dies island. the

tools over a 1000000 to is to you get the nice it smoke, honey kills is the hidden treasure go. 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 deadly vineyard for don't use much reset, but we won't get the gold one drop of medical, they could kill and make you a health problem. indeed, 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 out of quasi luxury is how you're fully regulated. multibillion dollar goes mining industry. how did this make sure we get here?

and why is it being used? the people of what i do that has to be very careful, very distrusting of john is not like any other body. we must constantly wanting the public about the risk. the n g is working in and around secretary im an area consisting of 3 small villages has counted nearly 50 children born with new logical and physical bust 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 let 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 thread time that conditions together. it is by then by the end, how long some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of i'm. i'm very concerned because i also have a young child and i say that we all know that mercury poisoning has terrible repercussions there is no cure. then it's a funny little my, the there were you exposed to lots of mercury before she was born? that i'm not clear. yes. what is the season started when she was one lady down the going from nevada. she's also data less less now. she's at the plus why i'm worried about not carry somebody because you hear a lot about it to the fact that the medical people out by you through exposure to mercury controls,

areas of support and even fateful ha on this as well documented his previous major disasters serving his 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 pull his name 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 miner? yes, yes. the story of informal goals, mining and loan book style sheet around 15 years ago when locals specialist and they'll put you in a t 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 illicit. normally secretary of about that was to day 19 a has agreed to share his story. and i must say a part of a non 5 by a lie of the long about my name is thought to them by indigo. i was born in law. right. yeah. so i'll go to yeah. yeah. and i did a lot of typical to work and the fresh air was efficient. and my goal is to do this how to load and off because it now is on it. so let's say a chose to become a 1000000 not really because like it doesn't have to be here the

little but i've got this. i thought i thought i have to pam i quickly before i leave the house because look like stuff out of my minding tools, invalid the 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 new, the i the phone number, the

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

the loss of little muscle, we need to prioritize our safety and let me go down the hall and i do the the, the work is extremely dangerous. low oxygen level of intense heat falling wilks flash floods and gas leaks when that told simple tools or a few of the risks. only recently i told them and blocks out due to a lack of oxygen along. good us, i'm just about on my god. i'm standing by my colleagues thought i was there, you know what i mean to get all that and add the a fun. i mean,

but i have to 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 9 to work standing very good. but the wheels age, it begins with size, hold on and we tend to know he was processed the or to extract a gold and a match. we use the key component yeah . well then the finally get home by the pound, the or from the bouncing into smaller pieces. is that the is that the little? but the did 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 oppose this mercury in

the bowl, to collect the call to see that i'm doing. i mean it is poured into the bowl now to bind with a go the mouth to a is then burned away, leaving behind fuel gold and poisoned dispute. finally, the toxic waste full time is discard age into the environment. the amount of socket hospital officials came to my house to explain the risk to mercury to us. but there's nothing i can do. we don't know how to process the order without using good you right? by the fucking, i found all i know i to be done. murder is the next really 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 relative death can also cause the logical disorders, especially children. it can cross the human flush center leading to the birth defects and other logical problems globally 20 percent to the annual go production comes from informal miners like federal ron in indonesia. moco may be 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 finds its way into drinking wells. rice patties and the rivers in seems where people

fish has helping leafy and lower level, but up accomplished. uh something i think i uh, research conducted by several universities such as my thought i'm university. sure . the mercury is present in festivals and fruits and other food production and lumber are falling into. that's where you put them up to find them. yeah. so if anything to the new matter, we get to know the name and get it into the toxicity of the mercury. it doesn't just cause problems where the miners work. it also spreads to other places may i put in with. and i knew that some of that may be something that i brought up and, but then when i and 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, the news, wherever the wind takes in my mind. yeah, the can't escape,

it doesn't happen. data naturally does not break down in the environment to move it used 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 off a graph that's was around $300000.00 group. yeah. but outside the box. yeah. that's i'm thrilled. that smells and twice the amount in daily is officially measured. what costs 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 have died off to consuming mandatory in his pursuit as a multitude. he was not the last abraham lincoln, the pirates, king black beard, and isaac knew all to the to have suffered from that to be poisoning. in the 20th century map. here we continue to be used in medicines, lightbulbs. the moment for this cause metrics move within the 1950s a much really as a factory in the seaside town. 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, the dissolves to let to title regulations around the world. by 2013 a global treaty, the minimizer conventional met to a was born. today, $99.00 countries, including indonesia rectified the conjunction mandating them to protect the citizens from the dangers of this deadly metal. yes, the french continues the level as a result of gold mining. not sure to use headstrom, the key increased and that is a sized complication. sort of the now the form of this i meant the difficulties

diagnosing that to re poisoning is that symptoms of similar to those of other diseases. medically, it would naturally 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 any other net and use of previously collected samples in long bulk. but the efforts will not extend seems concerned with his active action today. doctor is leading a team to conduct bio mancha testing. that's the community what the assessing. yeah . uh nice problem concerns and so we have to find out just how big the problem is.

first on that list, especially rahman and his stomach. he said debbie about that the only day. 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 maturation. then we would like to test you, your wife and our child is to be on the physical and cognitive test to carry it out. did you take early signs of poisoning done through the front of my assembly? 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 out of my move to hear from the case of metal units, a lot more tingley sensation. maybe that's and i guess sometimes the

but if i'm not how long the child been doing uncontrollably again, sometimes the last 2 or 3 days. then the team takes half and now samples yeah. i'll give you that, as i told you, that you can release to been examined by the daughters. a lot of shots to the said you got, i'll get the investigation continues with a search from that to me in the in the last moment. this is a new mix, portable mercury analyzer that did me or not. this device allows us to measure the mercury in the air at a specific location. so the analyzer generates results immediately a reading about 1000 is considered on safe gallery for

the kind of here's the results of what 8657 the funding across the medical and mercury concentration in the area around this ball mill is between a $110000.00 planograms per cubic meter. isn't it? the 121-0000 is the number of where you have to evacuate. how does yep. if i don't see this, i am not based on these results. i feel that mr. fucking ramon in his family's health were in danger. yes, it was hopefully taking the back if he could reach 10000 with uh, our initial findings indicate that to them. um, as hell sessions. so, but that's the number of exam to show that the coordination is the left and right. there's many of them. so i'm,

i'm well under that and i'm with them on his ability to coordinate fine motor skills is full, so slow up and the average person that's in that a all man 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 and some possible while i'm on the bus went well once i got on the line the best loans as to how to do it, a lot of daylight to us and how it and yeah, i realized he didn't want to suckle side that as i kept him home today. i don't mean that bundle on or but i think i hope to talk to right away. so helping a young people, adults took

a biopsy to investigate the issue. the problem was it isn't test or something. yeah . they would not functioning properly. yeah. might be so they get that their mind due to his deformed and test gains. federal government's child isn't able to move his files. instead, the excrement needs to be sent out to the tube on a daily basis. he is out on pennbrook a and you get that you have to talk to told me how to treat as i can only myself, my wife can carry on a procedure. i know a lot by the unable. yeah. and yes, but this can only be a temporary fix. the, again, any that i'm going to see to send to expose to mercury via the time of a little behind the baby's, susceptible to him and that to the genetic changes where instead of getting it big . yeah, that can lead to an amount of t as the organs phone, but i'm looking for the pro behind on on them. but the bottom of the bottom i scans

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 13000000 group us. but it's a lot of the times that kind of money as 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. that's 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 your news coach? you'd be a starter. if you did pass the results might provide on some of those testing

number. it is just a microcosm. the 4th remains a wide spectral across much to the denisia. in wishing to set the data alone, probably $1000.00 times 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 ton grams up here and all over indonesia, 3500 tons the, the, the health issues faced by central rahman or tucson. and i know it's unique to them,

but in many countries as opposed to doing informal mind, also using mercury to extract in asia. the problem is brought 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 using? is it the, or at least 300000 minus, using the 2 in indonesia? each it's in use is up to 20 parts met to me to every possible goal. because this is a problem to the indonesian government who has committed internationally to deal

with mercury f. one printing on martha implemented mazda convention is a binding international agreements. them in the countries the 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 neg jury by 2020. the following. i met with some with the national action plan, includes policies that the adoption of alternative technology is because processing and the tougher enforcement news is also recommend that the production of met. so we should be start. this starts with the pro addition as a mining of an old code 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 snow bar, including the smelting and the process to produce medically from the or and the 2nd is prohibitive. the cell trade of memory, including exportation mining and we're finding signal in indonesia is not against the little if you have autonomy. but the government has 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 the volcano from setup island into the most. and 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 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 and machinery that allow mine is to excavate to send about old local journalist a trying to expose this illegal activity the or someone's i was 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, sorry, i'm tell you, i mean my, my daily reporting. so comes primarily the environment on an indigenous people in my life. so i know it's not like you must have had that the model good on my local

data that i want to documents the mining activities and become independent sources. so like yeah, on the side of them get them up. it's very difficult to get in. like i said, i have to be very careful. i'm not going to get another thing too much because i love the very distrusting of journalists, because they can expose the information to the public. this illegal mining still exist as somebody regarding me, my dad with long try to get protection from the village head. whether mine is situated, but failed to get the media to expose your mind. to a tools to several minds that he knew opened up about people who receive bribes called me to somebody to find that's widely believed by police. officers are involved in what people gotten to the 30 but then practically shot felt responsible in person can phone decentralized imagery the film the following

on his mobile. so i found the minus 10 top here in the middle of the mountains near the mirror about 1000 meters above sea level. that again, so stupid to me that you think lots of tents have been set up on the cliff. there was no way of activity would go unnoticed. thousands of tents, now it's important, some of the notes. this raises the question with the southern counties, a coordinating cup, hunting, applying, di attends to shut down the mines well publicized in the media. in 20172020. but as result and found out these attempts have failed. and did the memo. this class that they were still active, cinnabon,

mining and engine nokia needed for ins to home. the is due to a couple of things in the memo. i discussed being we saw in forestman a gun who can get on 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. supply i don't. yeah. and if i'm a gun by pushing them back to discovery, i've seen a bar in 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 that is the largest supporter. yes. do you mind? yeah. putting this out on the books. i mean that, 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 thought she's been some couple me sonia and i suppose these come with me not going to die. we trace decodes documents. when i did underneath an undiscovered, 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 a movie, then you get back. i'm more than a get lined up. i can get with somebody then i also found a court ruling and numbers where the police were involved in trading mercury, me, but lumber gladly can according invoice and to use illegal refineries have been spoke to you, gene bar vogel. and john bond, the dad constantly on the move to is a detection a no response believes that there are also refineries on several 9 and

the name of this document that are there is activity that they have. the results are on the top that is used for distillation, the, the kind of look more into them. the 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 miners full of indonesia. this is welcome news to the minus in 2nd tongue lumber. by the majority of the population,

a reliant on goes mining for anything. just one gram as goal is, was very health. the usual monthly minimum wage yeah. gold linings in poultry because there's no other one from the some why. so you can only mine here in secretary cut off by you. if you don't use mercury, you call and get the call among the, even if you could see the golden rule, i couldn't get into a, i found a mazda i bought 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 to them. when we went to the field, we trying to educate the miners. what about all of our medical? it's a little uh and that's where they know that mercury is very toxic, i think, and then, 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,

they turned against the land. yeah. any i remember talking to you then i'm not gonna do that. yeah. on my side. okay. 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 under icicle . get that what mine is might those understand is a slow a didn't city is the facts 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. kindly who used to be a minor registered 9.8 time type. his child $5.00 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 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. mean, and that we should be very concerned about this. the test results back up the initial findings as a community of examinations. the 1st clinical assign, usually happens 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 on your logical decline that that yeah, cuz i don't daddy disability depends on how much mercury is in the body and the person's resistance to mercury, which varies highly 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 that up or they may have defects depending on the disorder that occurred during the development of the baby's organs. and the wound up on the side, unless out by a supplement, depend 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 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. those cyanide is extremely poisonous. the residual danger of environmental buildup is low compared to match me

my name and as a data on investment, the sy, in addition 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 and the uh, what the 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 something painted on salt when they used sign edition. they use that 60 to a 100 grams of gold, and then 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 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. escape when that gets, even though the 2025 target is 100 percent mercury and free because the fact is, demetrius is still being used in the fields we left on talking the supply of mercury is one possible solution for funding by a government should strictly prohibit cinnabon lining again, so not the issue. permits is even 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 mercury positions should be the other way around. that mercury should be banned, produced naturally continues to be so originally used by gold miners. and if 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

bathroom, but as i said, i'll card condition as i'm up a. so i'll do my best to keep my some health. how do you want to die? not say, 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 got a lot of friends, i hope myself to have to be healthy soon. the

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