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Underground Southeast Asia: A Mining Adventure
I certainly wouldn’t want to see this channel get stuck in a rut. So, that’s why we’re headed back underground in some of the frontiers of mine exploring. Oh, yes, we have dodged the monsoon rains and the brutal, sticky heat from the mountains of Myanmar to the sprawling deltas of Vietnam before. Of course, those aren’t the only challenges in Southeast Asia. You have the bad roads, language barriers, unexploded ordnance in some areas, organized crime groups, some unpalatable foods, the often insane traffic, disease, desperate poverty, the occasional terrorist attack…
On one of our prior visits, we visited the Ijen sulfur mines in Indonesia. If you haven’t seen that video yet, I strongly encourage you to watch it. It isn’t that long and it is one of my best videos. Yet not many people have...
published: 02 Aug 2023
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10 Biggest Mining Operations in The World
10 Biggest Mining Operations in The World
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published: 28 Apr 2023
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Sempertrans conveyor belts operating at Mae Moh Mine, the largest open-pit mine in South East Asia
Watch our latest video from Mae Moh, the largest open-pit lignite mine in South East Asia
In the last 10 years Sempertrans has supplied more than 145 km of conveyor belts to the Mae Moh Mine in Northern Thailand. We have been cooperating with ITD (Italian Thai Development), the biggest mining contractor in Thailand. Watch the video and see how our colleagues from Global Field Service were on-site to supervise the splicing of our conveyor belts.
Our conveyor belts with the special and newly developed XCG cut and gouge resistant covers have proven to be the perfect fit for conveying overburden in the mine. XCG covers have a 20% higher impact resistance than standard covers and maintain excellent abrasion resistance.
The Mae Moh mine in Northern Thailand is the largest open-pit lignite mi...
published: 06 Aug 2020
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Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano | Risky Business
In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." So why do they do it? In this episode of Risky Business, we head to Ijen volcano to find out.
MORE RISKY BUSINESS VIDEOS:
12 Riskiest Jobs In The World From Colombia To India | Risky Business | Insider News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXmLkBl3hA
Five of The Rarest Goods Hidden in the Heights of the Himalayas | Risky Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErlNbnWC5Bk
The Dangers Behind 6 Popular Foods | Risky Business | Insider News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6QQTDNx4s
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published: 21 Jan 2022
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The Real Price Of Indonesia’s Mercury-Poisoned Gold | Undercover Asia | Full Episode
In Indonesia which is Asia’s largest gold producer, informal gold mining is a crucial source of income for hundreds of thousands. But this once traditional livelihood hides a deadly secret that may be poisoning its most vulnerable residents and causing irreversible environmental harm.
We reveal the scale of Indonesia’s multi-million dollar trade in mercury, the toxic element used to extract gold from its ore. With a new and illegal domestic supply, we reveal how this mercury is being used at thousands of mines and investigate how NGOs have found increased rates of children born with life-changing defects. We meet the miners and the people fighting for change and take viewers into the illicit mines that have been hidden from public view.
With Indonesia bound by international agreements ...
published: 22 Jul 2023
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Myanmar's Jade Curse | 101 East
Gold is valuable but jade is priceless, so goes a Chinese saying. For centuries, the Chinese consider jade an imperial stone with mystical properties. Today it is coveted all over China as a status symbol, a collectible and an investment.
Demand from increasingly wealthy Chinese drives the value of jade through the roof. At this year's Shanghai World Jewellery Expo, auctioneers put the opening bid for top grade jade items at more than $160 a gram, exceeding four times the price of gold.
Intricately designed pieces, made from top grade jade known as jadeite, are viewed as attractive investments despite the lack of scientific valuation methods. In recent years, jadeite has provided better returns than real estate.
But the imperial stone delivers a death sentence to treasure hunters in Mya...
published: 02 Dec 2014
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Mining South East Asia - Leuren Moret
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published: 13 Nov 2022
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Diamond Mining - Inside the Largest Mine in the World | Free Documentary Shorts
Diamond Mining - Inside the Largest Mine in the World | Free Documentary Shorts
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Leads the Way in Uranium Exploration | GoviEx Uranium
Investing in Uranium Stocks
GoviEx Uranium Inc., an African-focused uranium project company, is making notable strides in the uranium market, which is experiencing a resurgence in strength and demand. With a clear vision for the future, GoviEx is dedicated to advancing its two main projects, Madawala in Niger and Mutanga in Zambia, towards development and construction. These projects are not just about uranium extraction; they represent a crucial step towards revaluation through the market cycle and a testament to GoviEx's commitment to sustainable and responsible mining.
The global landscape for nuclear energy is changing, with a massive geopolitical shift over the last two years positioning nuclear power as a foundational component of the future energy mix. This shift is largely driven...
published: 02 Mar 2024
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How do Arab Countries have the largest oil reserves?
In this video, we explain briefly why do we get so much oil from Arab countries and how petroleum is produced, and the formation process of petroleum and also this video covers the following topics:
- The difference between coal and crude oil formation.
- Tethys Ocean, microbes, and planktons.
- Plate tectonics, continent drifting, how the Himalayas formed.
- How the middle east formed.
- conventional energy to renewable energy, list of renewable energy
published: 17 Aug 2022
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Underground Southeast Asia: A Mining Adventure
I certainly wouldn’t want to see this channel get stuck in a rut. So, that’s why we’re headed back underground in some of the frontiers of mine exploring. Oh, y...
I certainly wouldn’t want to see this channel get stuck in a rut. So, that’s why we’re headed back underground in some of the frontiers of mine exploring. Oh, yes, we have dodged the monsoon rains and the brutal, sticky heat from the mountains of Myanmar to the sprawling deltas of Vietnam before. Of course, those aren’t the only challenges in Southeast Asia. You have the bad roads, language barriers, unexploded ordnance in some areas, organized crime groups, some unpalatable foods, the often insane traffic, disease, desperate poverty, the occasional terrorist attack…
On one of our prior visits, we visited the Ijen sulfur mines in Indonesia. If you haven’t seen that video yet, I strongly encourage you to watch it. It isn’t that long and it is one of my best videos. Yet not many people have seen it… This is the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ybbbePvnVE
Really, I suppose this most recent trip should be considered as a part of a broader exploration project on the region.
I try to push the channel into interesting areas for you, dear viewers, which is why I visited the mines in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Portugal and others. We’re visiting Tunisia and Libya in October in order to try to run down some ancient Roman mines.
Unfortunately, when I visited some of the really interesting mines in Sudan or other parts of Africa or the lapis mines in
Afghanistan, I wasn’t into documenting mine exploring yet and so I don’t have videos of those. That’s a shame because they were fantastic.
I’ll have to go back, I suppose… For now, I hope you enjoy the views of Southeast Asia that are in this video.
There are few places left in our world for explorers and adventurers. The oceans are one outlet. The lost worlds underground are another... Humanity seems to have lost much of its heroic spirit to carry us out into the stars. I yearn for the stars, but, for now, must content myself with the darkness underground rather than the darkness in the sky.
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You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD and here: https://bit.ly/2p6Jip6
Several kind viewers have asked about donating to help cover some of the many expenses associated with exploring these abandoned mines. Inspired by their generosity, I set up a Patreon account. So, if anyone would care to chip in, I’m under TVR Exploring on Patreon.
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever.
I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring
https://wn.com/Underground_Southeast_Asia_A_Mining_Adventure
I certainly wouldn’t want to see this channel get stuck in a rut. So, that’s why we’re headed back underground in some of the frontiers of mine exploring. Oh, yes, we have dodged the monsoon rains and the brutal, sticky heat from the mountains of Myanmar to the sprawling deltas of Vietnam before. Of course, those aren’t the only challenges in Southeast Asia. You have the bad roads, language barriers, unexploded ordnance in some areas, organized crime groups, some unpalatable foods, the often insane traffic, disease, desperate poverty, the occasional terrorist attack…
On one of our prior visits, we visited the Ijen sulfur mines in Indonesia. If you haven’t seen that video yet, I strongly encourage you to watch it. It isn’t that long and it is one of my best videos. Yet not many people have seen it… This is the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ybbbePvnVE
Really, I suppose this most recent trip should be considered as a part of a broader exploration project on the region.
I try to push the channel into interesting areas for you, dear viewers, which is why I visited the mines in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Italy, Portugal and others. We’re visiting Tunisia and Libya in October in order to try to run down some ancient Roman mines.
Unfortunately, when I visited some of the really interesting mines in Sudan or other parts of Africa or the lapis mines in
Afghanistan, I wasn’t into documenting mine exploring yet and so I don’t have videos of those. That’s a shame because they were fantastic.
I’ll have to go back, I suppose… For now, I hope you enjoy the views of Southeast Asia that are in this video.
There are few places left in our world for explorers and adventurers. The oceans are one outlet. The lost worlds underground are another... Humanity seems to have lost much of its heroic spirit to carry us out into the stars. I yearn for the stars, but, for now, must content myself with the darkness underground rather than the darkness in the sky.
*****
You can see the full TVR Exploring playlist of abandoned mines here: https://goo.gl/TEKq9L
You can see the gear that I use for mine exploring here: https://bit.ly/2wqcBDD and here: https://bit.ly/2p6Jip6
Several kind viewers have asked about donating to help cover some of the many expenses associated with exploring these abandoned mines. Inspired by their generosity, I set up a Patreon account. So, if anyone would care to chip in, I’m under TVR Exploring on Patreon.
Thanks for watching!
*****
Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever.
I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
#ExploringAbandonedMines
#MineExploring
#AbandonedMines
#UndergroundMineExploring
- published: 02 Aug 2023
- views: 11971
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10 Biggest Mining Operations in The World
10 Biggest Mining Operations in The World
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10 Biggest Mining Operations in The World
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- published: 28 Apr 2023
- views: 1234263
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Sempertrans conveyor belts operating at Mae Moh Mine, the largest open-pit mine in South East Asia
Watch our latest video from Mae Moh, the largest open-pit lignite mine in South East Asia
In the last 10 years Sempertrans has supplied more than 145 km of con...
Watch our latest video from Mae Moh, the largest open-pit lignite mine in South East Asia
In the last 10 years Sempertrans has supplied more than 145 km of conveyor belts to the Mae Moh Mine in Northern Thailand. We have been cooperating with ITD (Italian Thai Development), the biggest mining contractor in Thailand. Watch the video and see how our colleagues from Global Field Service were on-site to supervise the splicing of our conveyor belts.
Our conveyor belts with the special and newly developed XCG cut and gouge resistant covers have proven to be the perfect fit for conveying overburden in the mine. XCG covers have a 20% higher impact resistance than standard covers and maintain excellent abrasion resistance.
The Mae Moh mine in Northern Thailand is the largest open-pit lignite mine in South-East Asia with a production of 16 m tons coal per year. It is operated by EGAT, which is the largest power producer in Thailand. The conveyor capacity ranges up to 18,000 tons per hour. This replaces around 450 full loaded trucks (40t) per hour.
https://wn.com/Sempertrans_Conveyor_Belts_Operating_At_Mae_Moh_Mine,_The_Largest_Open_Pit_Mine_In_South_East_Asia
Watch our latest video from Mae Moh, the largest open-pit lignite mine in South East Asia
In the last 10 years Sempertrans has supplied more than 145 km of conveyor belts to the Mae Moh Mine in Northern Thailand. We have been cooperating with ITD (Italian Thai Development), the biggest mining contractor in Thailand. Watch the video and see how our colleagues from Global Field Service were on-site to supervise the splicing of our conveyor belts.
Our conveyor belts with the special and newly developed XCG cut and gouge resistant covers have proven to be the perfect fit for conveying overburden in the mine. XCG covers have a 20% higher impact resistance than standard covers and maintain excellent abrasion resistance.
The Mae Moh mine in Northern Thailand is the largest open-pit lignite mine in South-East Asia with a production of 16 m tons coal per year. It is operated by EGAT, which is the largest power producer in Thailand. The conveyor capacity ranges up to 18,000 tons per hour. This replaces around 450 full loaded trucks (40t) per hour.
- published: 06 Aug 2020
- views: 27045
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Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano | Risky Business
In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." So why do they do it? In this episode of Risky Business, we hea...
In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." So why do they do it? In this episode of Risky Business, we head to Ijen volcano to find out.
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Five of The Rarest Goods Hidden in the Heights of the Himalayas | Risky Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErlNbnWC5Bk
The Dangers Behind 6 Popular Foods | Risky Business | Insider News
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Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano | Risky Business
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In East Java, Indonesia, hundreds of miners face deadly smoke to mine sulfur, or "devil's gold." So why do they do it? In this episode of Risky Business, we head to Ijen volcano to find out.
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12 Riskiest Jobs In The World From Colombia To India | Risky Business | Insider News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXmLkBl3hA
Five of The Rarest Goods Hidden in the Heights of the Himalayas | Risky Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErlNbnWC5Bk
The Dangers Behind 6 Popular Foods | Risky Business | Insider News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6QQTDNx4s
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Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano | Risky Business
- published: 21 Jan 2022
- views: 19745893
46:19
The Real Price Of Indonesia’s Mercury-Poisoned Gold | Undercover Asia | Full Episode
In Indonesia which is Asia’s largest gold producer, informal gold mining is a crucial source of income for hundreds of thousands. But this once traditional live...
In Indonesia which is Asia’s largest gold producer, informal gold mining is a crucial source of income for hundreds of thousands. But this once traditional livelihood hides a deadly secret that may be poisoning its most vulnerable residents and causing irreversible environmental harm.
We reveal the scale of Indonesia’s multi-million dollar trade in mercury, the toxic element used to extract gold from its ore. With a new and illegal domestic supply, we reveal how this mercury is being used at thousands of mines and investigate how NGOs have found increased rates of children born with life-changing defects. We meet the miners and the people fighting for change and take viewers into the illicit mines that have been hidden from public view.
With Indonesia bound by international agreements to stop mercury usage by 2025, we learn what is being done to meet that target. We also explore some of the greatest challenges the country will face if it is to protect its citizens from this metal that becomes toxic when used in the wrong ways.
Watch more Undercover Asia: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTb786lOB4Qsr5zp58blidcw
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About Undercover Asia 10: CNA's award-winning investigative series Undercover Asia uncovers the hard truths in the underbelly of Asia, and exposes the unintended fallout of change in the fast-moving continent.
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In Indonesia which is Asia’s largest gold producer, informal gold mining is a crucial source of income for hundreds of thousands. But this once traditional livelihood hides a deadly secret that may be poisoning its most vulnerable residents and causing irreversible environmental harm.
We reveal the scale of Indonesia’s multi-million dollar trade in mercury, the toxic element used to extract gold from its ore. With a new and illegal domestic supply, we reveal how this mercury is being used at thousands of mines and investigate how NGOs have found increased rates of children born with life-changing defects. We meet the miners and the people fighting for change and take viewers into the illicit mines that have been hidden from public view.
With Indonesia bound by international agreements to stop mercury usage by 2025, we learn what is being done to meet that target. We also explore some of the greatest challenges the country will face if it is to protect its citizens from this metal that becomes toxic when used in the wrong ways.
Watch more Undercover Asia: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTb786lOB4Qsr5zp58blidcw
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About Undercover Asia 10: CNA's award-winning investigative series Undercover Asia uncovers the hard truths in the underbelly of Asia, and exposes the unintended fallout of change in the fast-moving continent.
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- published: 22 Jul 2023
- views: 118190
26:00
Myanmar's Jade Curse | 101 East
Gold is valuable but jade is priceless, so goes a Chinese saying. For centuries, the Chinese consider jade an imperial stone with mystical properties. Today it ...
Gold is valuable but jade is priceless, so goes a Chinese saying. For centuries, the Chinese consider jade an imperial stone with mystical properties. Today it is coveted all over China as a status symbol, a collectible and an investment.
Demand from increasingly wealthy Chinese drives the value of jade through the roof. At this year's Shanghai World Jewellery Expo, auctioneers put the opening bid for top grade jade items at more than $160 a gram, exceeding four times the price of gold.
Intricately designed pieces, made from top grade jade known as jadeite, are viewed as attractive investments despite the lack of scientific valuation methods. In recent years, jadeite has provided better returns than real estate.
But the imperial stone delivers a death sentence to treasure hunters in Myanmar, where China's jadeite comes from.
Most of Myanmar's raw jade enters a murky black market. Its official revenue from jade exports over from 2011 to 2014 was $1.3bn. But Harvard University's Ash Center estimates total jade sales - including through unofficial channels - were $8bn in 2011 alone, suggesting most of the revenue does not go into government coffers.
The Myanmar government will not speak to us on camera. But our investigations reveal a corrupt senior government official who works with businessmen in the illegal trade of raw jade, including helping to falsify tax documents.
In northern Kachin state, we follow jade smugglers to the remote Hpakant mining town, the source of the world's best jade. The men are part of the government's border guard force. The officer in charge tells us how he pays off army and police commanders along the smuggling trail to China.
Hpakant is out of bounds to foreigners and no foreign journalists have been known to make it there for years. Large mining companies suspended operations here in 2012 after the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar government went to war the preceding year, ending a 17-year ceasefire. With peace talks stalling, most companies have yet to resume excavation.
Despite the tension, tens of thousands of small time jade pickers have flooded Hpakant to sift through mine tailings, risking life and limb to toil in harsh conditions, hoping to strike jackpot. Some work alone, others in groups supported by businessmen. Their findings often go straight into the black market, forming the unregulated bedrock of the industry today.
A dark force fuels their labour. Jade picker Aik San estimates 75 percent of the miners have become drug addicts. They get their daily dose of heroin or yama - a type of methamphetamine - from drug dens around town. It numbs them from their backbreaking labour and helps them work longer hours in the harsh weather. With hidden cameras, we obtain shocking footage from the drug dens, revealing the scale of drug abuse that infests the underbelly of the jade trade. We also find a drug rehabilitation centre in Kachin state with more than 50 recovering addicts from the mining town. One of them, Aung Kyaw Moe, painfully shares how his employer paid him and fellow workers with heroin to get them hooked so they would work harder for their next dose.
As the hammer goes down in major Chinese cities for more glitzy jade items auctioned off at record levels, wealthy collectors celebrate yet another treasure possessed. It offers stark contrast to the wretched lives of mine pickers at the bottom of the supply chain, in a land far away.
101 East investigates the jade smuggling trail and uncovers the human cost of the imperial stone.
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Gold is valuable but jade is priceless, so goes a Chinese saying. For centuries, the Chinese consider jade an imperial stone with mystical properties. Today it is coveted all over China as a status symbol, a collectible and an investment.
Demand from increasingly wealthy Chinese drives the value of jade through the roof. At this year's Shanghai World Jewellery Expo, auctioneers put the opening bid for top grade jade items at more than $160 a gram, exceeding four times the price of gold.
Intricately designed pieces, made from top grade jade known as jadeite, are viewed as attractive investments despite the lack of scientific valuation methods. In recent years, jadeite has provided better returns than real estate.
But the imperial stone delivers a death sentence to treasure hunters in Myanmar, where China's jadeite comes from.
Most of Myanmar's raw jade enters a murky black market. Its official revenue from jade exports over from 2011 to 2014 was $1.3bn. But Harvard University's Ash Center estimates total jade sales - including through unofficial channels - were $8bn in 2011 alone, suggesting most of the revenue does not go into government coffers.
The Myanmar government will not speak to us on camera. But our investigations reveal a corrupt senior government official who works with businessmen in the illegal trade of raw jade, including helping to falsify tax documents.
In northern Kachin state, we follow jade smugglers to the remote Hpakant mining town, the source of the world's best jade. The men are part of the government's border guard force. The officer in charge tells us how he pays off army and police commanders along the smuggling trail to China.
Hpakant is out of bounds to foreigners and no foreign journalists have been known to make it there for years. Large mining companies suspended operations here in 2012 after the Kachin Independence Army and the Myanmar government went to war the preceding year, ending a 17-year ceasefire. With peace talks stalling, most companies have yet to resume excavation.
Despite the tension, tens of thousands of small time jade pickers have flooded Hpakant to sift through mine tailings, risking life and limb to toil in harsh conditions, hoping to strike jackpot. Some work alone, others in groups supported by businessmen. Their findings often go straight into the black market, forming the unregulated bedrock of the industry today.
A dark force fuels their labour. Jade picker Aik San estimates 75 percent of the miners have become drug addicts. They get their daily dose of heroin or yama - a type of methamphetamine - from drug dens around town. It numbs them from their backbreaking labour and helps them work longer hours in the harsh weather. With hidden cameras, we obtain shocking footage from the drug dens, revealing the scale of drug abuse that infests the underbelly of the jade trade. We also find a drug rehabilitation centre in Kachin state with more than 50 recovering addicts from the mining town. One of them, Aung Kyaw Moe, painfully shares how his employer paid him and fellow workers with heroin to get them hooked so they would work harder for their next dose.
As the hammer goes down in major Chinese cities for more glitzy jade items auctioned off at record levels, wealthy collectors celebrate yet another treasure possessed. It offers stark contrast to the wretched lives of mine pickers at the bottom of the supply chain, in a land far away.
101 East investigates the jade smuggling trail and uncovers the human cost of the imperial stone.
More from 101 East on:
YouTube - http://aje.io/101eastYouTube
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- published: 02 Dec 2014
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Diamond Mining - Inside the Largest Mine in the World | Free Documentary Shorts
Diamond Mining - Inside the Largest Mine in the World | Free Documentary Shorts
Watch 'Road of Bones: A Trip On the Coldest Road In The World' here: https://yo...
Diamond Mining - Inside the Largest Mine in the World | Free Documentary Shorts
Watch 'Road of Bones: A Trip On the Coldest Road In The World' here: https://youtu.be/pzoYy-j1snY
Diamonds are the most coveted stones worldwide and have been mined for decades. We visit the largest diamond mine in the world - in Siberia.
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Free Documentary Shorts is dedicated to bringing high-class short documentaries to you on YouTube for free. With the latest camera equipment used by well-known filmmakers working for famous production studios. You will see fascinating shots from the deep seas and up in the air, capturing great stories and pictures from everything our beautiful and interesting planet has to offer.
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Diamond Mining - Inside the Largest Mine in the World | Free Documentary Shorts
Watch 'Road of Bones: A Trip On the Coldest Road In The World' here: https://youtu.be/pzoYy-j1snY
Diamonds are the most coveted stones worldwide and have been mined for decades. We visit the largest diamond mine in the world - in Siberia.
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Free Documentary Shorts is dedicated to bringing high-class short documentaries to you on YouTube for free. With the latest camera equipment used by well-known filmmakers working for famous production studios. You will see fascinating shots from the deep seas and up in the air, capturing great stories and pictures from everything our beautiful and interesting planet has to offer.
Enjoy stories about nature, wildlife, culture, people, history and more to come.
- published: 22 Mar 2020
- views: 7598696
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Leads the Way in Uranium Exploration | GoviEx Uranium
Investing in Uranium Stocks
GoviEx Uranium Inc., an African-focused uranium project company, is making notable strides in the uranium market, which is experien...
Investing in Uranium Stocks
GoviEx Uranium Inc., an African-focused uranium project company, is making notable strides in the uranium market, which is experiencing a resurgence in strength and demand. With a clear vision for the future, GoviEx is dedicated to advancing its two main projects, Madawala in Niger and Mutanga in Zambia, towards development and construction. These projects are not just about uranium extraction; they represent a crucial step towards revaluation through the market cycle and a testament to GoviEx's commitment to sustainable and responsible mining.
The global landscape for nuclear energy is changing, with a massive geopolitical shift over the last two years positioning nuclear power as a foundational component of the future energy mix. This shift is largely driven by the growing demand out of Far East Asia, highlighting the critical role that GoviEx's projects will play in meeting this burgeoning need. With the Madaouela Project in Niger completing its feasibility study and engaging in financing and offtake discussions, and the Mutanga Project in Zambia gearing up for its feasibility study completion in 2024, GoviEx is on the cusp of securing its position as a leading uranium producer.
GoviEx Uranium Inc. is not just about uranium; it's about contributing to a sustainable and energy-secure future. As the company moves forward with its projects, it remains committed to the highest standards of environmental stewardship and community engagement, ensuring that its operations contribute positively to the regions in which it operates and to the global community that stands to benefit from clean, reliable nuclear energy.
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Investing in Uranium Stocks
GoviEx Uranium Inc., an African-focused uranium project company, is making notable strides in the uranium market, which is experiencing a resurgence in strength and demand. With a clear vision for the future, GoviEx is dedicated to advancing its two main projects, Madawala in Niger and Mutanga in Zambia, towards development and construction. These projects are not just about uranium extraction; they represent a crucial step towards revaluation through the market cycle and a testament to GoviEx's commitment to sustainable and responsible mining.
The global landscape for nuclear energy is changing, with a massive geopolitical shift over the last two years positioning nuclear power as a foundational component of the future energy mix. This shift is largely driven by the growing demand out of Far East Asia, highlighting the critical role that GoviEx's projects will play in meeting this burgeoning need. With the Madaouela Project in Niger completing its feasibility study and engaging in financing and offtake discussions, and the Mutanga Project in Zambia gearing up for its feasibility study completion in 2024, GoviEx is on the cusp of securing its position as a leading uranium producer.
GoviEx Uranium Inc. is not just about uranium; it's about contributing to a sustainable and energy-secure future. As the company moves forward with its projects, it remains committed to the highest standards of environmental stewardship and community engagement, ensuring that its operations contribute positively to the regions in which it operates and to the global community that stands to benefit from clean, reliable nuclear energy.
Subscribe to receive more investment opportunities and stock market news videos: https://share.hsforms.com/1SfI551UgTlOM_12GMs9vRAd2c0v
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- published: 02 Mar 2024
- views: 1341
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How do Arab Countries have the largest oil reserves?
In this video, we explain briefly why do we get so much oil from Arab countries and how petroleum is produced, and the formation process of petroleum and also t...
In this video, we explain briefly why do we get so much oil from Arab countries and how petroleum is produced, and the formation process of petroleum and also this video covers the following topics:
- The difference between coal and crude oil formation.
- Tethys Ocean, microbes, and planktons.
- Plate tectonics, continent drifting, how the Himalayas formed.
- How the middle east formed.
- conventional energy to renewable energy, list of renewable energy
https://wn.com/How_Do_Arab_Countries_Have_The_Largest_Oil_Reserves
In this video, we explain briefly why do we get so much oil from Arab countries and how petroleum is produced, and the formation process of petroleum and also this video covers the following topics:
- The difference between coal and crude oil formation.
- Tethys Ocean, microbes, and planktons.
- Plate tectonics, continent drifting, how the Himalayas formed.
- How the middle east formed.
- conventional energy to renewable energy, list of renewable energy
- published: 17 Aug 2022
- views: 811839