The Maximum Marmora Phenomenon part three Valley of Gold

This is a great Canadian documentary by Tim Wilson (aka Hoagy) about god, uranium, octogenarian punks, country jamborees, holy visions, canoe trips into the heart of darkness, open pit mining, cell phone towers, arsenic poisoning, toxic radiation, and beavers.

This segment features Deloro, a dying villiage and abandoned gold mine near highway seven and the Moira river. Toxic radioactive waste and arsenic sit in the open by the shore of the Moira river. Hear a harrowing account of a boy's radioactive rock collection and take a trip into a homegrown heart of darkness.

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[swirlartswirl]

the video seemed to be bleached during the radiation segment . was that done on purpose ? great work ! thanks eh

[guythehood]

i left the aperture open. it looked just like i felt, standing there on the dump site, starting to go weak in the knees.

[jamiedemille1]

Does anyone know if you can buy this. I'd like to have a copy for myself. Is it on dvd? It's weird to think about, growing up asking dad about these places (on our sunday drives through deloro) and him not knowing a whole lot about the area or what they did there (we grew up in Wooler half hour away). All he'd say is "they had a mine there, what they did i'm not sure but...." and that was the just of it. Now he works for Deloro Stellite in Belleville and i'm wondering if there's a connection.

[guythehood]

i think there probably is...i do know that an entire house was moved from the contaminated site to belleville...an old lady who lived right next to the mine was relocated. i shot the movie, and felt like the kid you describe much of the time we were driving around deloro, spider's, the marmora mine and greensides...i'll let tim know you liked it and ask him how you can get a dvd.

[bobbyvswamp]

Great video. Amazing that THEY would just keep adding more contamination to the site. Irresponsible government and business!

[guythehood]

thanks. working on another toxic sinkhole story just a few miles away. outside of large and small urban centers, i would say this problem has become endemic and due to get worse. one of the striking lessons of mmp is that THEY include "regional" media outlets and even local historians who consent to act as professional apologists for supersized (and therefore rapacious) global resource industries...the lie is that it happened in the past and that we "know better"...the truth begs to disagree.

[bandroom59]

thay should find out who is responsable for this tragedy and make them clean it up

[Chronologixxx]

This was interesting

[BelovedChildAmy]

how sad...i am wondering how can people do this to their land. By now we are all saying Go Green and the carbon footprint but this is ridiculous to see. Peak Hill, Australia has a mine like this one and can't mine it no more because of the wather is phoseic acid ? It is weird how similar this is.