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

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14 жыл бұрын

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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@user-kk9df7cs9w Ай бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@hairullah0974 Ай бұрын

Lokasi dimna ya pak klo boleh tau

@alizaderic 13 жыл бұрын

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."

@rogermestler1753 2 ай бұрын

going on since before recorded time

@jaryH3 13 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

@Gennys 8 жыл бұрын

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?

@flamedrag18 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@aqisugb9080 6 ай бұрын

Kita bisa beli raksa dsana bang

@budiy8187 3 жыл бұрын

Kalimantan Desa mangkahui.

@hootinouts 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@x2thebox 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@b679995 13 жыл бұрын

What about them using a Standard 7 gallon Pressure cooker, like we use to can produce in America, They could add the the pipe in the Lid, and also have a pressure gauge to regulate the pressure, This should eliminate ANY leakage of Mercury Vapors, and speed up the process, and should last for years !

@suryachannel8854 3 жыл бұрын

Di mana bisa beli alat itu

@benglenda911 13 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@x2thebox 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@Frifler888 10 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

Mercury has always existed...lol

@5272paul 2 жыл бұрын

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