Inside America's gold mines

[9pt9]

Hopefully they won't find any more and my gold will go up to a million dollars an oz!

[mounlasy]

Its there if you can afford to mine it

[MillionairJoe]

$1744 now!

[vaco2221]

10-2011 $1660.00

[JPMorganSuckBalls]

@vaco2221 $1920 a few months ago.

[Regginyaga]

I got a mine thats fine

Isn't it the best one yet

I bought it in '49

[MrBanker2222]

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[compton508]

When I typed Carlos Mencia's name into this box I chose not to add it to my dictionary.

[xiiaopuii]

Start saving other metals , it would be much more expensive in the future .

[alZiiHardstylez]

"Hemmisfer"

[KrpTGaMinG]

pussy mines compared to Australia

[mrplanb121]

it is like minecraft

[corydee123]

the price of gold will continue to rise as the population of trashy useless humans increase. supply and demand

[imhereforsomething]

one million dollars at todays prices.. *orgasm*

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

@guitarbridgecleaner People buy the gold so customers are the ones getting something back, both parties benefit. No one has a right over the imagery they want to see. If they mined less gold the prices of electronics would sore and you wouldn't be able to afford a computer to write such useless drivel. Also these mining companies are creating jobs.

[noordereind19]

And wasting our oil! For some yellow? My oh my, we are distorted!!!!

[MzBUZZKILINGTON]

@noordereind19 Look up the uses for gold before you make everyone angry with more ignorant comments. The device your using to post this uses gold to function you moron.

[KevinRobots]

it says ''think safety-seatbelts save lives on the trucks. wonder if they thought of how many people would actualy see that

[schizrade]

@guitarbridgecleaner You're an idiot.

[1996adamlagrave]

id steal a bar a day

[weihnachten000]

and to keep the oil price down they are down in iraq ;) god bless the USA !

[yourallstoopid]

@weihnachten000 down... you mean up

[htc6600]

That machinery looks a lot like taconite separation equipment.

[175yam1]

cool  G O L D

[amourdutigre]

I do think that they should drop a couple of those 70LB gold ingots at my address...

Unlike Uranium, gold does not make me fart...

[JetMechMA]

You can't eat gold and you can't burn it in your car's engine. What good is gold?

[JaminHell]

@JetMechMA um it makes you look pretty when you wear it. also you can save it up and let the gold prices skyrocket and watch your gold gain higher profits as time goes on. :-)

good investment. (gold bullion)

[JetMechMA]

@JaminHell In Argentina they once closed the banks and shut down the ATM machines. The people had to rely on the barter system. Gold was worthless because you can't eat it and you can't burn it in your vehicle. Only real goods and services have any real value. Gold will become instantly worthless in a world wide financial crisis.

[JaminHell]

@JetMechMA So is money.

so you believe the barter is a good system? it probably is. never had to go that route before, anyways my question to the barter system-what happens if you got nothing to barter with?

[JetMechMA]

@JaminHell You always have your manual labor to barter with....and from there you aquire things to barter with. All I'm saying is that in a worse case scenario like happened in Argentina, gold will have no practical value except in industrial uses. Only every day objects will have real value. Gasoline. Food. Labor. Auto parts. Those things keep everyday life rolling along. Gold doesn't. If you were hungry or stranded by the side of ther road, which would you want; food, gasoline, or gold?

[JaminHell]

@JetMechMA um i would want gold,women and packets of beef jerky with water. i be a happy man.

[JetMechMA]

@JaminHell There is a fantastic episode of the old TV show Twilight Zone...or maybe one of the other shows. But the plot goes like this, a gang of robbers pull off a gold heist. Their escape plan is to hide in a cave out in the desert and put themselves in suspended animation for hundreds of years until the statute of limitations is over and then they can freely spend their gold. When they awake in the future, one by one they die hiking out of the desert with their heavy gold.

[JetMechMA]

@JaminHell When they awake in the future, one by one they die hiking out of the desert with their heavy gold. When they are found by the residents of the future, the people shrugg their shoulders in amazement that they died carrying all that heavy gold....which has become common place and worthless in the future. The writing is excellent for two reasons: The weight of the gold alone killed them (their greed) and secondly, even if they had survived, the gold would have been worthless.

[rickhighland]

Those gold bars are 70 pounds. Gold is $1200.00 per ounce. 16 ounces per pound. That's $1,344,000.00 per bar. Those trucks haul an average of 60 ounces a load.

[vannabie]

Who gives a suger about the environment? Nobody lives there anyways ...

[BizarreWorks]

1 bar one million dollars? Yeah right

[BurtonKelly0]

@BizarreWorks You ass; Those bars are 70 pounds. A ounce of gold goes for 1000 dollars.

[BizarreWorks]

I mean its to cheap

[xXGNR1990Xx]

its true

[NevadaWrangler]

@BizarreWorks Do the math ......a 70 lb. bar at over $1000 an ounce...............even in troy ounces that's still over a million dollars

[randy95023]

With U.S. Budget deficits of over 1 Trillion dollars per year I would expect Gold prices to go up as the value of the dollar goes down. From 1984 to 2009 the value of the US dollar fell by 1/2. That means that one 2009 dollar is now worth 50 cents in '84 dollars. I would expect that by 2012 the dollar would be worth about 1/2 of it's current value. Your $1000 Gold coin (1 oz.) will be worth about $2000, but is actually just maintaining it's worth. Gold & Silver maintain value...

[randy95023]

-continued- The good news of devaluing the dollar is that our $20 Trillion Dollar Debt will drop in real terms to $10 Trillion if the dollar drops by 1/2. Devaluing currency paid off WW2 and "New Deal" debt, as it did again in the late 70's and early 80's paying off Vietnam era debt. Problem is your savings devalue by half as well. Gold and Silver are great hedges against a devalued currency. Let's just pray that we don't go into "hyper" inflation!

I've seen this movie before...

[tube2a]

the dollar is being replaced as we speak, say bye bye to the dollar and hello to 4,000 dollar gold. The international banking establishment are pushing forward their agenda and its easier to see every singe day.

[adamalden]

lol 0:14

[idahopugilist]

you're a piece of shit! fn lozer! go jump off a bridge or something. You are obviously a disturbed individual!

[hackerhater]

hemisphare

[informationauth]

So who has more gold, Newmont mining or the FED?

Anyone think the FED is lying on the amount of gold we store?

[informationauth]

Yeah, ok. I know that already.

So whats your point.

Our currency is owned by the Fed, I Know that. Hence FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES. Not United States Notes.

[dawkinsfaith]

The point is that the so called National Debt really is just the extortion which your government allows the banks to levy upon the people. Now what government of and by the people would allow a bunch of Shylock money lending parasites to run a nation into debt? If the government did issue US currency then it wouldn't need to pay interest on that money - that is my point. Now why isn't that an issue in America? Lincoln,and Kennedy tried to make it an issue and both got shot

[bigbumnutsucker]

its the rich that just get richer nomatter how thay get it

[chuckkottke]

Consider the risks: arsenic polluted water, heavy metal contamination, & some chemicals involved have high associated risks when there are accidents. Set the bar high for all, as it is the public commons that's at stake - our air, water, & land resources that will ultimately be affected, whether in Chile or Nevada. We can live without gold, but we cannot live with the long-term cancers, neurological disorders, birth defects, or degraded environment for all life- we are inseparable from nature.

[XB70Valk]

Re: "... we can live without gold ..." You would not have been able to post that comment without gold.

[bigbumnutsucker]

yes he would , chips dont have to made out of gold you fool

[sasktank]

chuckkottke--there's gold in the computer you used to write this

[soylentgreenb]

Sasktank, gold-plating is used on computer chips because it's cheaper than tin-lead plating.

With tin-lead plating you would have a slight increase in failed chips due to the occasional tin-whisker formation and due to the slightly higher contact force you'd need to insure good contact.

Even if you assume there was no other plating that could replace gold it's no big deal. Just use a Ball-Grid-Array packaging and solder the chip directly to the motherboard like they do with graphics-cards.

[chuckkottke]

To fully oxidize the sulfide wastes as I understand greatly reduces the leeching of other very toxic elements, but that's expensive and rarely used. Gold can be extracted safely from seawater, and would be if the price were right. Those few legitimately essential uses of gold - wires in chips and connector platings - can be supplanted with other materials (carbon nanotube wires, etc.), and what little remains can be supplied through recycling and safe seawater extraction.

[idahopugilist]

Good job on this video!!!

[tgriz18]

MY HOME TOWN BEOCHES

[jameshailwood007]

this guys voice is like a womans

[ShiekYerbooty]

American land, but you won't see any of the profits, in fact if they find gold on your land, eminent domain will soon take it from you.

[evilallan]

Western Shoshone land actually....but they won't see any of it either.

[XB70Valk]

Not true ... Many of us Western Shoshone living in these areas work for the mines and are making very nice paychecks. The tribe also benefits from generous contributions of money, resources and other support from the mines around them.  I for one have no complaints. I might still be living in squalor were it not for these operations. So I'd say we ARE seeing the profits.

[fverona]

Defending gold mining by arguing that environmentalists benefit from mining materials is pretty weak - this argument can be used for necessity items, but most gold is used for jewelry and decorative uses - I have never bought gold jewelry, and if we have to drive up the cost of gold to get people change to less damaging materials, it's worth it -- I and my dirty hippie cohorts may eat dominos and drink bud, but we recycle the boxes and cans

[liltinysammy]

darrito hjahahhahahaa

[Daritto7117]

At :14 the narrator states..."IN THE WESTERN HEMI"SPHAIR"

WTF ARE YOU CANADAIAN?!?!?!?!

[squirc]

yeah, what's your point?

[50Olds88Coupe]

The very same people who are so opposed to mining are happy to benefit and even promote its fruits and the technologies it supports. Computer hardware, wind generators, nuke plants, hybrid cars, batteries, wiring, transformers, for "green" technology. All will require massive amounts of metals and minerals to "save the planet" from today's "dirty" energy production. Uranium, aluminum, platinum, palladium, gold, silver, copper, cobalt, cadmium, lithium, rare earths, and so many more.

[AirelonTrading]

A-men

What was it Carlos Mencia said?

"You reefer-smoking retards all claim to hate big business, but the first thing you do when you get so stoned you don't even know what day of the year it is, is rent movies from Blockbuster, order pizza from Domino's, drink Budweiser and play the Playstation from SONY."

[nakabar]

@AirelonTrading Carlos 'butthole' Mencia probably stole that from someone else. But whoever said it first was the true retard. How are you going to avoid corporations? We have no choice but to give money to these big businesses, that's the way the world works now. It doesn't mean we have to enjoy doing it or have a friendly attitude toward them.

[AirelonTrading]

@nakabar Or, you could enjoy the profits yourself, the money and the wealth, by learning how to invest.

Or, you could just sit, smoke reefers, and complain about a process you dont understand.

[TheEmarbe]

@nakabar bitching about something and not doing anything about it is pathetic..

Make your own food from what you grow or kill or from local markets, dont buy into clothes that dont support a greater cause and dont buy materilistic garbage. (ipods,video games, movies, jewlery) until you do that you have NO right to talk about hating big business at all.

typical american.

[NevadaWrangler]

@TheEmarbe Damn it guy.......although I do agree with your statement.....why do you non Americans always have to make that stupid comment "typical Americans".....it's NOT typical for Americans to bitch about big business and corporations. Do you realize this? It's the unfortunately louder and more ignorant and arrogant minority that do this hypocrisy.

[TheEmarbe]

@NevadaWrangler trying to stir the pot and anger is the strongest emotion. Hopefully it will piss even one US citizen off enough to wake up.....its world wide knowledge ameircans are stereotyped as fat ignorant unhealthy world wide bullies, despite what you are led to believe, the world hates you.

FYI

[2204Alpha]

@TheEmarbe who cares what a bunch of losers think. liberal losers are so scared of what others THINK about them.

[NevadaWrangler]

@nakabar yes you do have a choice, you just don't want to do the work. 

[nakabar]

@NevadaWrangler Yeah, "the work" usually consists of driving across one of the world's worst urban sprawls to search for mediocre independent businesses that are few and far between. I live in the most culturally retarded "major city" in canada, if not north america, if not the world. If I lived in the states, in, say, Portland, I would not have a hard time with it.

[TheEmarbe]

@AirelonTrading You will find idiots in any form of entertainment the fact you reconize pot smokers as some form of genre says more about you than "stoners".

[seethebob]

@50Olds88Coupe I was going to comment, but saw it was 3 years old and decided not to.

[SyphonFilter25]

Too bad the gold is IN the earth not OUTSIDE it.. ehh?

Environment me later.

[AirelonTrading]

Please. The mines in the U.S. are 1000's of times more friendly to the environment than, say, in Eastern Europe.

Talk to me when you've seen an Eastern European mine, that is stripped open and left open with slag everywhere.

[SyphonFilter25]

So as long as your American and doing something slightly less worse than somebody else, its okay?

Give YOURSELF a break, stop being so American and take blame for once in your life.

[photekxl]

You're not clever, and you have a fiery case of inferiority complex.

[SyphonFilter25]

Don't worry, I'm not you.

[M4rkJW]

Lol whut?

[Brainaide]

I actually have seen the reclaimed land in NV.

You cant' tell the difference from the natural state. NYC has a golf course build on top of the landfill ($400k membership fee !!!!!!) Also I agree with you pointing out Airelon's broken logic. I guess the point is that If you damage enviroment localy, than who cares about eastern europe but if you damage it globaly (inefficient use of energy etc...) Than first you should go after the dirtiest polluters in E.Europe and Asia

[fverona]

You obviously haven't seen the orange streams with acid mine drainage running in West Virginia from mines in high sulphur rock that are still being given new permits as we speak, or entire towns in central Pennsylvania that are built on slag with the ugly landscapes with little vegetation and the constant risk of landslides

[AirelonTrading]

Actually, my family is from Huntington. Well, originally, East Lynn just north of War, and what *was* Coalwood. So yes I have seen them. I've seen slag damns. My wifes family is from Pennsylvania (Pittsburg region)

And those are hundreds of times better than what you will find in other areas of the planet, such as Eastern Europe, and in Asia and Africa.