Illegal mining

Illegal gold mining using mercury in Kabupaten Aceh Barat, Indonesia

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• tailings
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• indonesian

[kerbyjackson]

It'd be nice if you explained to people what they're seeing opposed to just throwing out "illegal mining with mercury" to instigate a reaction. What you are seeing in this video is a giant, water powered rock tumbler. Inside the spinning drums are the heavy concentrates and mercury. As it spins, the mercury bonds with the gold. It is later separated by intense heat, which yields clean gold and the mercury. The mercury is re-used, not dumped into the environment.

Nor is this method illegal.

[jdawgjayj]

The flow is just water being used to operate tumblers. In those tumblers are mercury. The mercury isn't lost. It has an infinity for gold and sticks to it and forms Amalgam which won't allow the mercury into the environment. The part not shown here in the short segment is the retort which captures this mercury from the gold keeping it preserved and not released into the atmosphere or surrounding environment.

[PyR0Star]

kick ass ball mill setup.....

[jsmythib]

now thatsa tool :)

[belgiumboy3]

Illegal mining or not, THIS MACHINE IS JUST PERFECT

thnx 4 the upload :)

[mryellow123]

@IcechickenSr lol wow a bigger douche then myself :-P

[IcechickenSr]

@mryellow123 your an argumentative little fag aren't you. I was so entertained reading through your bullshit which was none of my business (absurd isn't it?) that I sudenly felt the urge to stick my balls into your little epeen troll session and give you something else to waste your time with...see where i'm going with this? "Tunnel-vision" indeed to not see the total absurdity in my comment, and all 5 million of yours in this vid. Wishing you all the best...fuck off. Cheers, IC

[IcechickenSr]

@kerbyjackson Thank you for the explanation mate, very much appreciated someone took the time to explain whats in the video. I was extremely intrigued watching the water power machine working away due to my very keen intrest in green technology and thinking about al the neat stuff I could do with this.That said I didn't understand how it was being used in the video so thank you. As to that other asshole even I can see why wouldn't they reuse the old mercury due to how it is used in the first plc

[mryellow123]

@kerbyjackson p.s. I don't really want to talk to you anymore, you're dragging me down to your level and making me dumber.

[mryellow123]

@kerbyjackson Semantics, so hung-up on your "corporations are evil" stuff that you can't see the forest for the trees. Now just go ahead and justify the whole thing and paint it as a model of good environmental practise. Why if you have such contempt for the problems, do you act as a shill?

[kerbyjackson]

@mryellow123 No, my position is that what you are seeing is non-sanctioned mining existing outside of the corporate structure, therefore dubbed "illegal", contrary to the corporate version which is painted as "legal" because the corporations are THE government. The methodology in this video is OLD, akin to something used centuries ago.