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Island, the tools over a 1000000 to is to you get the nice that spokane it kills is a Hidden Treasure gold. And thats why the island has one of the densest populations of gold miners in indonesia, South East Asia is biggest go to produce but this industry is fueled by a debt. If we dont use much project, but we wont get the goal one group of medical, they could kill and make you a health problem. In some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of my mind and my answer talks and is spreading for the opposite. The level at which you have to evacuate out quasi luxury, is how youre fully regulated, multibillion dollar goals, mining industry. How did this make sure we get here . And why is it being used . The people of what i do, the has to be very careful, but theyre very distrusting of general is not like any other bodies. We must constantly wanting 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 bust defects since 2018 minus. Gotta depend on what your name, your rica youre new here here. Yeah. But i find that ill let say me today for these children are being examined by concerned local delta dental now started the seizures, and now hes constantly drooling where hes worried. There may be a common spread time that conditions together. It is by then by the end, how long some patients have symptoms that suggest poisoning of im. Im very concerned because i also have a young child and we all know that mercury poisoning has terrible repercussions and there was no cure then in the air. How many were you exposed to lots of mercury before she was born . That im clear . Yes. E. And what is the season started when she was one lady down the going panata, shes also deaf. Whats the last nessie that the plus why im worried about not jury somebody because you hear a lot about. Its the fact that the medical people out by get the exposure to mercury controls irresistible and even fateful ha on this as well documented his previous major disasters serving his 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 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 miner . Yes. Yes. The story of informal goals, mining and loan book, started around 15 years ago when locals spoke. Shes, you know, put unity, Large Mining Company found, and lots deposits and lumber. Local people started to think about, oh if that was gold for large scale for obee can get the small scale one. So they thought they could get, you know, the crumbs from the big guys just had even been in full mining, took off, eventually producing more gold than corporate mining companies. Up until now the gold lining activities, especially the small scale illegal, illegal and illicit. Normally secretary of about the work to day 19 a has agreed to share his story and im gonna say a lot of what i 95 die. I live the long. Well my name is for to them by any i was born in the right. Yeah. So out of the yeah, yeah, and i did a lot of typical to work in the fresh air was efficient and my goal is to do how to load and off when i say no, i just wanted to sort of of the colors i chose to become a millionaire really . Because like it doesnt have to be here to the little but ive got this. I thought i thought i have to pam i quickly before i leave the house because loud. Sluggish, like slab out of my minding tools. Yeah. This to the trip then take 2 hours, right down to the its getting late to such a hurry to work. A lot of that as i well, how firms and some, including my uncles and other relatives. I have rule gold miners just like me. My new, the i the phone number the, is that us and i feel a sense of joy when i get to the present on the follow the sound big scene. Yeah. The yeah, i got all the people i work with. So im like my brothers. He saw that the follow up. So i do laurie west. Its natural is the i the, the an estimate is 22000 people in lumber depend on small scale gold mining to earn a living, excavations precariously from the Steep Mountain side. Its not cold, ominous personal mine, but he doesnt the, that the its currently is a 16 meters deep is naturally some will frame and muscular bills provide him with a particular advantage. When descending into the depths, the most of the most that we need to prioritize our safety and let me go down the hall and i do the, the, the work is extremely dangerous. Low oxygen levels, intense heat, phoning wilks flash floods and gas leaks when that total tools are a few of the risks and he recently towed um and blocks out due to a lack of oxygen along. Good us, im just bought on my god, im standing by my colleagues built, i was the, you know what i mean, they get, ill go ahead and add the a fun. I mean, so, but i have to do is pull the color of this rock is white. Thats good. The problem. And then there are holes of greens and yellows. And it has black veins. Youve got 9 to work standing that very good. But the wheels angel begins when sold on and we tons has no seamless process seal to extract the gold and match we use the key component yeah. And then the by look at home by the pound, the or from the mounts into smaller pieces. Is that the lawyer is that the little but the in the rocks are placed in a bowl mail where they are combined with weights and hundreds of pieces of water. Gradually they breaks down into the settlement as i put this mercury in the bowl to collect the call to see that im going to mean it is pulled into the bowl middle to bind with a go the mouth to reach is then burned away, leaving behind fuel gold and poisoned dispute. 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 theres nothing i can do. We dont know how to process the or without using good you, right . By the i found all i know i to be done. Murder is the next. Really has or does metal the can have severe consequences on human health and the environment. It can cause minimize a disease which is a serious condition leading coma analysis. Death can also cause new or logical disorders, especially children. It can cross the human flush center leading to a birth defects and other logical problems globally, 20 percent to the annual go production comes from informal miners like federal ron in indonesia, moco baby produced like this, that informal Mining Operations to complicate matches, the minus pulling mills often located near a local realtor filters the contaminated waste water, then finds its way into drinking wells. Rice patties and the rivers and scenes where people fish, a leafy onion. Let one limit of accomplish. Uh, simple. Think i uh, Research Conducted by several universities such as my thought, Im University sure that mercury is present in festivals and fruits and other Food Production and lumber i falling into. Thats where you wanna move to find them. Yeah, i mean, i assume that you think of them. Yeah, no matter what we get to know the name and get it into the toxicity of the mercury doesnt just cause problems where the miners work. It also spreads to other places and put in a book, and i knew that some of them read me something that i bought a step and by then what i am. But that smells who naturally, which is branch of the go, trying to face and accumulates in the air until one day. Some way. It falls as toxic rain and then you will lose wherever the wind takes it in my mind, you cant escape it and 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 a, you know, im saying is a tape. I think its about half a graph thats was around 300000 group, adams, but outside of the yeah, thats im thrilled. That smells and twice the amount in daily is efficient. But it wont cost with his. Com. So his family, neighbors, and community. This is the only metal, this is liquid room temperature. Mix it with cold and watch a mesmerizing ritual funding on for the past. 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. Can 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. Many montage upon killed moles of 900 people and left thousands permanently disabled. Here is another child whose father died. Minimize the disease. Her limbs are deformed that is often left to title regulations around the world. By 2013, a global treaty, the minimal conventional met to a was born. Today, 99. 00 countries, including indonesia, rectified the convention, mandating them to protect the citizens from the dangers of this deadly metal. Yes, this tract continues the level as a result of goals mining naturally use headstrom the key increased and that is a sized complication. Sort of the now the form of this on medical difficulties diagnosing naturally 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 new or logical disorders. Lane thats how they get a number of tests on needed to ensure the symptoms are really due to mercury poisoning. But the in the other end used previously collected sancho syndrome bulk. But the efforts were not extensive concerned with the doctor of action today. Doctor is leading a team to conduct bio mancha testing. Thats the community what the assessing. Yeah. Uh nice problem. Consensus old we have to find out just how big the problem is. First on that list, especially rahman and his stomach. He said debbie about that viani. Ok, hello sir. My name is dr. De la. My areas of innovation is a mining hot spot. And just in my center, we want to monitor Peoples 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 early signs of poisoning going through the life of the front of my assembly . Is it less . Right . I dont why the because dont have to change if i looks like it is starting to whiten up on my new out of my move to hear from the case of metal units a lot more typically sensation maybe that and that yes, sometimes the but if im not how long the child been doing uncontrollably. Again, sometimes the last 2 or 3 days. Then the team takes half and now samples. Yeah, i dont do that, as i told you that you can release to been examined by the daughters a lot of shots to do that and ill 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 it may or not. This device allows us to measure the mercury in the air at a specific location that us out a lot. So the analyzer generates results immediately a reading about 1000. 00 is considered unsafe. Configuring for the kind of heres the results of what . 8657. 00. The funding across the medical and mercury concentration in the around this ball mill is between 810000. 00 planograms per cubic meter. Isnt it . The 1210002 the number of where you have to evacuate. How does yep. If i dont see this, i am not based on these results. I feel that mr. Fucking ramon in his familys health are in danger. Yes, you know, its hopefully taking the back if he could reach 10000 with uh, our initial finding indicate that to them. Um, as hell sessions. So, but thats the number of exam to show that the coordination is the left and right. Theres many of them from on about and im with them from his ability to coordinate fine motor skills is full, so slow up and the average person. Thats 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 to late, full size around in some possible while im on the bus when well, mine started gotten the last possible loans as to how they did a lot of daylight to us at home the i realized he didnt want to suckle side that as i kept him home to take. I dont mean that bundle on or plastic hope to talk to right away for helping a young people. The doctor took a biopsy to investigate the issue that im problem. Was it this in testing or something . Yeah, they were not functioning properly. Yeah. Might be so they could not, but my now due to his deformed in test gains, special darlings child is on able to move his files. Instead, the excrement needs to be sent out through a tube on a daily basis. He is out, im done by any get that. Yeah. The doctor told me how to treat as i can only myself. My wife can carry on the procedure on. Yeah. About by the unable. Yeah. And yes, that this can only be a temporary fix. The, again, any that im assuming is the fetus in it is exposed to mercury via the time of a little behind the babys, susceptible to molecular and genetic changes where instead of getting it b. Yeah, that can lead to an amount of t as the organs phone, but im going to get a little behind on all of them. But the bottom of the bottom i scanned that a search and said he needs to be operated on the same thing. But i dont have the money because i dont have insurance costs around 30000000 group us a bundle. Its a deal with the i dont have that kind of money because i and the piece 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. Usually gives you news coach. Youd 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 of indonesia, the in wishing to set the data alone. Probably 1000. 00 ton a year. 1000 tons of memory, one drop of medical record kill and, and make you make your health problems. But were 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 as opposed to doing informal mind. Also using metrics to extract in asia, the problem is to, to the most run point in indonesia where theyre over 850 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. 00 minus, using met to in indonesia. Each of them uses up to 20 parts, met to me for every possible goal recovered. This is a problem to the indonesian government who has committed internationally to deal with mercury f 115. And im, i thought you submitted a mazda convention is a Binding International agreements. And then the countries that aims to protect human is on the environment from the dangers of measuring the i am 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 gold processing and the tougher enforcement blows is also recommend that the production of met 2 we should be still. This starts with the preservation of the mining of an old coal 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 medically from the or and the 2nd is prohibitive. The cell trade of mercury, including exportation mining into assigning, sent about o in indonesia is not against the little if you have a tiny but the government has not issued any time. Its making it de facto illegal. Regardless, a secret under listed Domestic Production in supply chains and that to me is still possibly a todays price, 3500. 00 tons of met to a could be was over 370000000. 00 us dollars. The where did this in of our or come from colors according to my information, to send a volcano from setup island into the most. And im 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 ministry of environment and forestry, but it was used to comment on the elicit mercury trade. Ringback one of the largest and 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 full this 2022. The blue tags hides the mining activity and machinery that allow mine is to excavate to send about old local journalist a trying to expose this illegal activity the or someones i was going to the mountain to find the scent of all my new number. So yeah, my name is really slow. Yeah. The im a journalist, given that lease custodians. I am in my daily reporting. So comes primarily the environment on an Indigenous People in my life. So i know its not like i said, ive had that the model good on my local data that i want to talk to me as the mining activities didnt become independent so so. So like yeah, on the side of them keep them up. Its very difficult to get in. Like i said, 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 the me much ive done with law. Im try to get protection from the village head, whether mine is situated, but failed to get the media to expose your mind to a tools to several minds that he knew opened up about people who receive bro, im just calling you to get somebody to buy. Thats widely believed by Police Officers are involved in what people grad school at the data to do, but then practically shot well to respond. So in person can phone decentralized imagery, the film the following or hes moved on. So i found the minus 10 top here in the middle of the mountains near the mirror about 1000 meters above sea level. That again, out sick. Today to meet the close of tents have been set up on the cliff. There was no wave activity would go unnoticed. Thousands of tents, now its important, some of the noise. This raises the question, even with the southern counties, a coordinating cup, hunting, applying, di attends to shut down the mines. What publicized in the media . In 20172020. But as resigned found out, these attempts have failed. And did the memo, the slaps that they were still active, cinnabon mining and engineers, you need it for. And so how the is due to a couple of things. In the memo i discussed being we know inforcement and back on who can get on. This is due to several factors. For example, the involvement of nor enforcement offices, old and lack of resources in the field. I still am on monday. The on sarah is believe to be some of the purists in the world. This creates an alluring opportunity for those with intentions. Supply i dont. Yeah. And if im a gun by pushing them about least the discovery of santa bar and sarah and the other parts of Eastern Indonesia where theres 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, id be nice daddy, that, that be so sorry, based on the dates or i have compilers get, some new kind of officials appeared to be involved in a go i such as been some couple me sonia and the i suppose these come with me, not going to guy. We trace the quotes documented just one man on the line. Nathan napa, undiscovered a shipment of synagogue, has been delivered using an engine easy and a National Armed forces truck uh, with a driver and um, a number plate z and then uh, from the deed and you got back from monica and e, we get blend up. I can get with somebody then um, i also found a court ruling and number where the police were involved in trading mercury. Me, but uh lumber gladly can according invoice and to use illegal refineries have been spelled. Teaching for vogel and john, by the day constantly on the move to is a detection a no response believes that there are also refineries on 79 and the name of this document that are there is activity that they have. The results are on the top that is used for distillation, the, the kind of look more into them. The was the influx of domestic mercury. Indonesian gold miners now have a plentiful supply of the toxic metal. Traditionally, so through a middle man its currently available on social media platforms, like facebook, west sellers, provide delivery right to the minus dose. Then 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 and secor tongue lumber. By the majority of the population of reliant on goes mining for anything. Just one grams goal is was very hawks. The usual Monthly Minimum wage not cold findings in poultry, because theres no other one from the some why. So you can only mine here in secretary cut off by you if you dont use mercury while you call and get the call among the even if you could see the golden rule, i couldnt get into a, i found a mazda, i bought the, the not, not up the expense of trying their best to convince the miners to change the ways. This is emily. I just need to ask some of the next step. I get that pulled up when we went to the field, we trying to educate the miners when it gets out while im on medical the its a little uh and thats where they know that mercury is very toxic. I think i didnt, but they dont want to be banned from using an eye on the ladder and wound up im including. So when we tried to talk to them and educate them, they turned against us all alone. Yeah. The i yeah, and im talking to you then im not gonna do that. Yeah. How much on that oxide 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 doesnt understand is a slo didnt city is the sights 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 hand to face threshold is 1200000. None of the people tested within the safe threshold. No, no account minus samples came back 26. 7 times high as in the safe level. Kindly who used to be a minor registered 9. 8 time ty, his child 5. 3 times the safe level. Casual romans result showed you reading. It was 12. 00 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 im 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 is 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 thats out there to them. Daddy disability depends on how much mercury is in the body and the persons resistance to mercury, which varies highly in seeing, is going to be. Mercury poisoning is more likely to impacts children and severely along these idea by you need them. You have, im using your lot here. I mean, yes. What up im going to 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 Aspects advise immediate action such as the evacuation of polluted areas. In reality, this is unlikely to happen here. The n g is not given up. So in low bulk, theyve introduced a new method of extracting gold from the old by using mills that make use of cyanide instead of that to me. The table by 2 co operative filter processing plant. So cyanide is extremely poisonous. The residual danger of environmental buildup is low compared to match. We might not so data on investment, the sy, in addition process is much safer because when cyanide is mixed with water, it immediately breaks down into nitrogen. Again, its actually stay for the environment and the uh, what mean when, when i got the, 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 sign edition. They use that 60 to a 100 grams of gold, and then thats what got them interested to process the any does he does on the ground execution. Prove tricky that a process on that project done, which directing gold using mercury is a quick process to put it only takes 2 to 3 hours to get the gold was done. So i think i debit sign edition can take 72 hours or 3 days to get the gold see. Yeah. The how do you thats not the only 100 minus like fast. What 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. 00 facts. Even if individual minus could afford the weight. The cost of extraction is too high, the to potential rewards up scaling the time 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 when that gets, even though the 2025 target is 100 percent, its mercury and free because the fact is, demetrius is still being used in the fields we left on tackling the supply of mercury. Is one possible solution for funding by a government should strictly prohibit cinnabon lining again, so not the 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 re position should be the other way around, that mercury should be banned, produced naturally continues to be. So originally used by gold miners and if 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, blah, blah blah. If you can give me another job begins and you can separate me from isaac, sit on the give me another job. Begins that i just have. Yeah. The, the ice is all current condition. So ill do my best to keep my son health side. You want to die . Not bad. I know hes normal kid. Yeah. But im still grateful. He was born on a model. Yeah. They do. I just, i have a so buddy, i set up the kind of friends i hope, my son to have to be healthy soon. The looking for the french for us to go above and beyond her youth. Its based on where i live, a trip to africa with the 77 percent in 30 minutes on the w. New advances in medicine. A custom tailor drugs are saving children, living with cancer, dancing else, treat parkinsons disease and multiple sclerosis. And robots are cheating breakthroughs and providing care and Telemedicine Research projects that are supporting and healing patients. Tomorrow today. In 90 minutes on d w. 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