Blacksmith Institute - Mercury: The Burning Issue (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- What is the connection between the gold you wear and the mercury-contaminated seafood on your plate? This video helps to explain it all. It documents Blacksmith Institute's project in Indonesia to reduce mercury poisoning from the gold mining process.
At least a quarter of the world's total gold supply comes from artisanal gold mining. UNIDO (The United Nations Industrial Development Organization) estimates that artisanal gold mining results in the release of an estimated 1,000 tons of toxic mercury per year, which constitutes about 30% of the world's mercury emissions.
Some 15 million gold miners, including 4.5 million women and 600,000 children, are poisoned by direct contact with toxic mercury. In addition, mercury rises and travels, dropping into rivers, oceans and seas, contaminating seafood far and wide.
Blacksmith is working with UNIDO's Global Mercury Project in Senegal, Indonesia, Mozambique, and Cambodia.
This video shows how Indonesian miners use mercury to release small amounts of gold. It also showcases a solution that has been introduced to the miners - a simple retort that can recapture mercury used in the gold mining process. This retort has been successful in reducing the amount of toxic mercury emissions.
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Respected Sir
Why and how u are using mercury in gold mining please tell me and how this mercury will affecting maining workers please tell me.
If U answers for these my quastions i will tray to eleminate for this risk as for as my knowledge.
Thanks U
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Trying gold Ced your methed try KO siraj
courageous. keep up the good work...
Sorry to hear about that. Lead is also one of the most poisonous metals, and is way more worked than Mercury. At least is has been eliminated from many home products, specially paint, but it is a very necessary component for the industry. Also it is dangerous because it tastes like sugar.
Apik sak glondong oleh sak ons. Material kotor pirang kilo sak glondong?
@staydput They were not "maddened", but the mercury affected the nerves, causing twitching.
Also, just a minor detail, but the process was for making fur felt, not tanning leather.
The mercury vapours caused the hairs from the fur (typically beaver) to clump together like dryer lint, which was then formed by hand into felt.
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where can someone get a hold of the stainless retort? thanks for the info.
@staydput they could be using elemental mercury which doesn't have the contact issue
romans put vinegar in lead containers to make it sweet (due to lead(II)acetate formed by reaction of lead and acetic acid), lithium is in fact the most lightest metal and it is not so toxic ....
Where is the rest of the videos?
Ben bir ricam var kardeşim ben gümüşü altından nasıl ayiracagız
0:49 I love the way you say that.. 😆😅🤣
wasting all that good mercury for worthless gold. omg, the diamagnetic properties of mercury are amazing.
do you need mucry to refine gold?
well no you could do it with other sort of stuff but thats also really dangerous.
dont worry you'e not alone
You're so kind
Bisa pesan air raksa mercury
Selamunaleyküm kolay gelsin
İnsallah bilgilerinizden bizde ögreniriz
lithium is highly toxic, it just doesn't have the additive effects of mercury or heavy metals.
google it man. its toxicity is its usefulness. they take just enough to mellow them without damaging them permanently. it is a delicate balancing act
Дикие люди, дети гор...
not only "these poor guys" will be affected by mining... I would say everyone in the world, soon or later...
Ginko
Yah khanij gold ko refine karne ka process hai yah bahut costly hota hai yahan bahut ALP Matra mein gold nikalta hai ismein labour kharch itna jyada hai ki yahan koi profit hone ki dur dur Tak sambhavna nahin yah sirf khanij gold ko refine karne ka process hai hamare Rajasthan mein aisa process hota hai vahan ISI tarah mitti ko refine kar kar ke gold prapt Kiya jata hai
gravity separation is almost always cheaper and better than mercury use but shaker tables are expensive much more work must be done on making gravity options cheaper and more effective so only a fool would use mercury.
Impressive operation they have going there, probably cost less than a grand to set up. The willingness to accept injury and pollution allows this type of low budget artisanal mining.
❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏 sath Saheb g 🙏
pure elemental mercury isn't super dangerous, mercury salts are the ones you gotta look out for.
HOLY SHIT YOU DISCOVERED THE SECRET OF ETERNAL YOUTH
Man you got something in your head
wauw.... just wauw.... at least give those guys some gloves and a fumehud :(
DO THEY EVEN KNOW WHAT IT IS?
I don't think handling that mercury all day is good for you...
Je nab kuce lafzu ke seammag nahe ate
i hope its for attention only...
Sorry, I don't understand chicken.
lol love the captions
black smith institute is de non profit institute. I fkn lost it rofl in Indonesia
@staydput you're obviously not a chemist
Guna kain payung👍
She is learned your languages beside all other things, can you learn her languages? Forget all OTHER things?
I am in alchemy science of goal
I dont think thats america lady
@phillypimp someone has to tell somebody about it how do you know what she does off camera ur a troll simple as that
I am pakistane how are you
I'm an Indonesian, and this is the worst accent I've ever heard.
important she can speak english than nothing.
ASIAN !!!!
@staydput because cyanide is so much safer!
She's Indonesian I guess
Yeh, you look like her evil twin
@UrbanLeopard13 what the hell is wrong with you/him?
I'm going to love you.
@meyoubeer
now its funny that you point it out lol ;___;
@staydput just was kinda trollin i'm sure you get "you're obviously not a chemist" all the time trollface.jpg
it also reduces your ability to detect sarcasm as i see
Who here did not understand 1 word she said
I understand one word
me love you long time
పాదరసం....... ఆఅ......
nothing nothing
OMG she is scary!
"established in ninety ninety nine
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we're fuck'd
This is a gold mining refining process only remember please
MIEPIE OELOEKIE ARIEKIE ANDAKIE RETARDIE LANGUAGIE
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this is fucking disturbiinngggg...... oh man im bothered
no offence...but i cant stop laughing when she's talkin..
very wrong
modern an iyayangan,,,lol
AT 6:24 i thought he through a child
lmaooooooooo wahaha me 222 lolll
her accent!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
lolol
AP bohat Achy ho
I want to see a man take a foot pref off a motor wind fire (satuset solder,Tukang Party)
de que mierda hablan aquí no entiendo un culo
ргъ
Не может отжатая амальгама содержать 80% ртути!