Gold Mining - Risking It All

[Mox]

For anyone who is interested there is a 30 minute documentary on gold mining in Peru on Al Jazeera, part of their Risking It All series . It’s halfway through right now but will be repeated at 05:30 tomorrow morning and 00:30 and 09:30 on Monday.

I’ve set it to record, missed the first 10 mins and it is very interesting so gonna watch the whole thing tomorrow.

 

(sorry if this is in the wrong place, couldn’t see anywhere else to put it)

Edited April 25, 2020 by Mox

[Abyss]

Assume you are talking about this @Mox

 

Sad what happens when illegal gold mining occurs in developed countries using mercury. Some other documentaries that show illegal gold mined from Latin America / Africa ending up in Dubai and then onto the Swiss refineries. Once gold melted and casted no way of knowing where the the origin of any Gold comes from. 

Edited April 25, 2020 by Abyss

[Mox]

23 minutes ago, Abyss said:

Assume you are talking about this @Mox

 

Sad what happens when illegal gold mining occurs in developed countries using mercury. Some other documentaries that show illegal gold mined from Latin America / Africa ending up in Dubai and then onto the Swiss refineries. Once gold melted and casted no way of knowing where the the origin of any Gold comes from. 

I flicked through it and think it’s different, will watch them both tomorrow. There was no sneaking about in the one I saw 5 mins of today and it wasn’t their Tech Know show.

[blackadder]

More like the country don't give a terrible mining on that scale how can it be illegal,that could be stopped if they wanted.

[Notafront4adragon]

Netflix Dirty Money season 2 Dirty Gold is worth a watch. Seems this gold will end up in all the major mints, even the US mint which claims to only use American mined gold. An eye opener.

[SilverDrum]

Thought i'd add to this ol' thread instead of making a new one. Just watched this VICE documentary on South Africa's underground illegal gold mines.

Really shocking and has made me think about the source of a lot of gold. The people and land that's destroyed in the pursuit of so much of it. I've never put much thought into these kind of sources trickling into the legal mined gold we all buy, but i would think it's far more common than we all know. Probably all own a fair amount of illegally mined gold ourselves. 

 

Edited February 7, 2023 by SilverDrum