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indonesia a power dies island. the tools over a 1000000 to is to you get the nice that smoke, honey kills is a hidden treasure gold. and that's why the island has one of the densest populations of gold miners in indonesia. southeast asia is biggest go to produce. but this industry is fueled by a deadly vineyard for dotius mercury. net. but we want to get the goal one group of medical they could kill and make you a health problem. some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of my mind and my answer talks and is spreading for them to say about a good idea. and that this is the level at which you have to evacuate out quasi

luxury is how you're fully regulated. most the installer, goals, mining industry, how did this make sure we get here? and why is it being used? you to do that i have to be very careful, very distrusting of john is not like any other body. we must constantly one the public about the risk. the n g is working in and around secretary of 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, for them. but i find that i'll just say me today for these children are being examined by a concern to the cold up to the down. now started the seizures, and now he's constantly drooling where he's worried. there 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 and god bless. and we all know that mercury poisoning has terrible repercussions, and there is no cure then in the air. how many were you exposed to lots of mercury before she was born? that i meant clear? yes. e. and what does the season started when she was one lady down the going from nevada. she's also data wash off now. she's at the plus why i'm

worried about not carry somebody because he here last about the fact that the medical people off by get the exposure to mercury controls. it was a simple and even faithful. 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 spoke, she's an opportunity,

a large mining company found and floods deposits in lumber. local. people started to think about, oh, if there is gold for large scale for r o b, 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, took off, eventually producing more gold than corporate mining companies. up until now the gold mining activities, especially the small scale illegal, illegal and elicit normally secretary about that was today. 19, a has agreed to share his story. and i'm gonna say a bottle of a 95 by a lie of the long. well, my name is spelled to them by indigo. i was born in rome law. right? yeah. so i'll go to, yeah. yeah. and i did a lot of people go to work and the fresh air was efficient. and my goal is to do

this how to load and off because it knows what it is. so let's of the fellows i chose to become a millionaire. really because like it doesn't have to be here to the little but i thought 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. yeah. this to a data 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 pin number

the that last and i feel a sense of joy when i get to the present on the follow the sound big scene. yeah. the yeah. the people i work with. so i'm like, my brothers soul dannetta the fall out. so i do, laurie west, that'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 for terry a see from the steep mountain side. it's not hold on and it's personal mine, but he doesn't do with that. the, it's currently is

a 16 meters. the is naturally whole 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. i'm gonna go down the hall and i do the the, the work is extremely dangerous. low oxygen level of intense heat falling wilks flash drugs and gas leaks when that total tools are a few of the risks. only recently i taught them and blocks out due to a lack of oxygen along. good us, i'm just fine. i have, my god,

i'm standing by my colleagues thought i was that i, you know what i mean, they get to go ahead and add the a funny. but i guess we'll 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 real danger begins with so hold on and we tend to know he was processed the or to extract a gold and met to a is a key component. yeah. and then the finally get home by the pound, the, or from the bouncing into smaller pieces. is that the, the, that the little the did the rocks are placed in

a bowl mail where they are combined with wakes and hundreds of pieces of water. gradually they breaks down into settlement as i possessed mercury and the bowman to collect the call to see that i'm done. i mean it is pulled into the bowl middle to bind with a go the mouth to a is then burned away, leaving behind fuel gold. and poisonous fumes. finally, the toxic waste whole time is discard age into the environment. the 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 so being that the merger 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 depth. then can also cause new or 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 the local move to filters. the contaminated waste water then finds its way into drinking wells. rice patties and the rivers and scenes where people fish, partially open, leafy, and loving labor. but i've 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 wanna move to find them. yeah. so if anything to the new matter, we get to know the name and get it comes with toxicity of the mercury. 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 i and but that's not who, naturally, which is the edge of the go 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. yeah, mm hm. i can't escape it. nothing happened. 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 the us, you know, i'm saying is a tape. i think it's about off a graph that's was around $300000.00 group at them. but i, science, i have the data from through that smells and twice the amount in daily is efficient. but it will cost will this come to his family, neighbors, and community?

this is the only metal, this is liquid room temperature. makes 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, new old as the to us, 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 a leak as a factory in the seaside town. as many montage upon killed moles and 900 people and

left thousands permanently disabled. here is another child whose father died. minimize the disease, her limbs are deformed, that is also let to title regulations around the world. by 2013 a global treaty, the minimum conventional met to a was born. today, $99.00 countries including indonesia, have ratified 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,

the key increased and that is a size and a complication. sort of the now the form of this i meant the difficulties diagnosing, not to worry poisoning, is that the symptoms of similar to those of other diseases. medically, a full battery 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 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 is sold. we have to find out just how big the problem is. first on that list, especially rahman and his stomach. he said. debra fat viani d. hello sir. my name is dr. de la. my areas of ation is a mining hot spot and just in my center we want to monitor people's health and the impact of the matcher. rico gun 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 these signs of poisoning done through the life of the phone or mine? 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 here. from the case of metal

units. the word tingling sensation maybe that's and i guess sometimes it does sound like how long does 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 do that and 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. in the past week, the analyzer generates results immediately

a reading about 1000 is considered unsafe. some of if it could be going for the kind of a, here's the results of what $8657.00. the funding across the medical and mercury concentration in the area around this ball mill is between a $110000.00 planograms per cubic meter. is in 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 are in danger. yes. you know, it's hopefully taking the back if he could reach 10000 with uh, our initial finding indicate that to them um, as hell sessions. so,

but that's the number of the exam to show that the coordination of the left and right this many times i'm, i'm about and i'm with them from his ability to coordinate fine motor skills is full, so slow up and the average person that's it. that is 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, but they lights off at home and yeah, i realized he didn't want to sell 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 this in test or something? yeah, they were 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 spouse. instead, the excrement needs to be sent out through a tube on a daily basis. he is out on pennbrook a and you get that. yeah, the doctor 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 interested in is exposed to mercury via the time of a little behind the baby's, susceptible to molecular and genetic changes where instead of getting it big. yeah,

that can lead to an amount of t as the organs phone. but i'm going to get a little behind on all of them. but the bottom of the bottom, i scanned that research 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 group us . but it's um, you know, those are the types that kind of money and the fees trials, illness is less defensive, around the, 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 in a lab. the

usually get you news cups. you'd be a star. 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 tons a year. $1000.00 tons of memory. one drop of memory can 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 rom annuities. finding a new, unique to them, but in many countries across the doing informal mind is 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 know, is it that or at least 300000 minus, using met to in indonesia. each of them uses up to 20 parts,

met to me 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 in the countries that 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 victory by 2020. the following. i met with some with the national action plan includes policies like the adoption of alternative technologies for both processing and the tougher enforcement flows is also recommend that the production of met. so we should be still. this starts with

the presentation as a 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 mercury 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 autonomy. but the government does not issued any time its making it de facto illegal. regardless,

a see question and then list it domestic production and supply chain from that to a is still possibly a today's price, 3500 tons of mercury could be was over 370000000 us dollars. the where did the scene of our or come from colors, according to my information, to send a 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 administrative environment and forestry. it was used to comment on the list,

which meant to be trade. ringback one of the largest in 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 of the blue tens tides the mining activity of machinery does allow mine is to excavate. to send about old local journalists, trying to expose this illegal activity. the says i'm 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 custodians. i am in 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 document the mining activities and become independent so, so they get on the muscle because i love them, get them up. it's very difficult to get in, like i have to be very careful because i love the very distrusting of journalists because they can expose the information to the public. this illegal mining still exist as somebody like telling me much. i've done this long try to get protection from the village head whether mine is situated, but failed. what's the media to expose your mind? to tools for several minds that he knew opened up about people who receive bribes, calling you to get somebody to buy. that's widely believed by police officers are involved who i think the best example at that 30,

but then practically shot felt responsible in person can phone decentralized imagery, the film, the following of his move out of food. and i found the minus 10 top here in the middle of the mountains near about 1000 meters above sea level. so to begin out sick today, do you think lots of tents been set up of look see if there was no way of activity would go unnoticed. thousands of tents, not it's impossible, not to notice. this raises the question with the southern counties. a coordinating, well, depending upon 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 describe that they were still active, cinnabon, mining and engineers? you need, for instance, is due to a couple of things in the memo i discussed being we little enforcement in the con hokum given them. this is due to several factors. for example, the involvement of nor enforcement officers, or the lack of resources in the field. i still am on monday. the on sarah is believed to be some of the purest 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, i'm not used to discovery. i've seen a bar in sarah and 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've unique that, that, that be so sorry, based on the dates or i have compilers get some kind of official as appeared to be involved in a go such as winston couple me sonya and the i suppose these come with me not going to guy, we trace to quote documents of goodman i did underneath the nasa on discover the shipment of synagogue has been delivered using an indonesian national armed forces truck with a driver and a number of lazy and then the movie then you've got but i'm more than a get lined up, i can get with somebody. then i also found a court ruling, a number where the police were involved in trading mercury, me, but the lumber gladly. ken medical needs in recent to use illegal refineries have been spoke teaching for vogel and john, by the day constantly on the move to as

a detection. and now we signed the lease that will also be finalized on several 9 and the name of this document that ok, the risk activity that the results are on the top for this use for distribution. but i got the, the kind of look more into them. the, with the influx of domestic battery 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 of reliant on goes mining for anything, just one gram as goal is, was very health, the usual monthly minimum wage. not gold, linings, and poultry, because there's no other one from the some why. so you can only mine here in secretary cut off type if you don't use mercury while 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 at the expense of trying their best to convince the miners to change the ways to give them a heads up. i just need to ask some of the next step. i get that to them. when we went to the field, we trying to educate the miners when it gets out while i'm on medical, it's a little uh and that's where they know that mercury is very toxic. i think i didn't,

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 line. yeah, the i as i'm talking to you then i'm gonna get that. yeah, hold on my side. okay. look here he has this disadvantage and you with it also has a voltage is 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 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 by 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 times, 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 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. then don't daddy disability depends on how much mercury is in the body and the person's resistance to mercury, which varies highly and seeing if that might be. mercury poisoning is more likely to impacts children and severely along these idea by you need them. you have, i'm using your lot here and i mean, the pop i'm in a 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 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 experts 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 that to be the table by to corporate to build

a processing plant. so cyanide is extremely poisonous. the residual danger of environmental buildup is low compared to match me my name and that's a data on investment. the other ones you just trying to do some 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, 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 to 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 that the process works. 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 federal 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 wouldn't that get even though the 2025 target is 100 percent it's mercury and free because the fact is, demetrius is still being used in the field up on talking the supply of mercury is one possible solution for funding by

a government should strictly prohibit cinnabon mining and not 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 america. so position 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 of lot. but if you can give me another job begins and you can for

me for my using it so i can give me another job. begins that i just have yeah. the bathroom. but as i said, i'll card condition. i'll do my best to keep my son healthy. do you want a deadline? yeah, and i 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, to the point strong opinions, clear position, international perspective, prime minister names are more be able to modernize in the on position. it's a significant geo political play a while skilfully navigating between various follow blogs on to the point we are discussing is india on the won't be on under data to the point

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