Lmao if you think gold is running out in South Africa,,then you are fooled...they say that so that the government and high profile investors can keep the money amongst themselves....I have family members in the mining industry from geologists to mining engineers to electrical engineers There is still loads of gold platinum diamonds and coal to be mined in this country
AY! LITERALLY -- THE CITY EXPERIENCES "WATER SHEDDING" SAID TO B A RESULT OF "LOAD SHEDDING" WHICH IS INCONSISTENT WITH RAND WATER THAT INTERMITTENTLY CUTS WATER SUPPLY AS A RESULT OF LOW DAM/RESERVOIR LEVELS. ONE OF THE MINES NOT ACTIVELY OPERATIONAL HAD ITS TAILING DAMN FLOOD & WASHOUT AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD
4:20 What's mind blowing is the fact that they go down in an elevator that goes 40mph and they don't have any seatbelt or anything, just casually talking like it's nothing :D If that deathtrap really goes that fast downward... then they should be stuck to the ceiling... then to the bottom as they stop... and all of them should be in severe shock from the pressure changes...
Imagine using an elevator twice a day for 21 days straight. The excitement wears off pretty quick. You don’t get sick because you are not deep enough. Being at a depth of around 5000 metres is the equivalent of being 7 metres underwater which is not enough to produce decompression sickness.
Gold's value is inflated, but it is NOT completely useless, and diamond is in fact extremely useful. Gold does not tarnish easily and is one of the best conductors of electricity without cooling. Diamond has 1000s of uses, from drill bits to semiconductors.
This is incorrect, diamonds actually have many practical uses, being the hardest substance on Earth. It's just that they're really expensive from artificial inflation (but they can also be created synthetically in labs, which is likely to become the primary means of production). Gold also has useful properties but it's genuinely pretty rare.
If gold was more common we would use it literally everywhere, gold is very very very useful, great conductor, very stable, incredibly dense, very easy to smelt and melt.
Interesting episode, always learning something new.
I worked there in the 90's, great job!!
taffrican maybe a little late, but wasn't it wicked fuckin hot down there, or did you wear some kind of special clothing
@@philswift1252 the temperature is 66 degree celusis down there but they pump ice to cool it down to 30 degree
what did you find
Did you find any Orcs down there?
@@pdxfunk yeah, them fuckers are everywhere
The effort and money we go to in order to extract some atoms of something we've attached an arbitrary value to!
There is industrial uses too.
@@LightStreamer Several!
Scarcity
Good is a good conductor
Also thank them for giving you the capability you write your comment.
Worked there in the West Rand also, i had great time.
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Lmao if you think gold is running out in South Africa,,then you are fooled...they say that so that the government and high profile investors can keep the money amongst themselves....I have family members in the mining industry from geologists to mining engineers to electrical engineers
There is still loads of gold platinum diamonds and coal to be mined in this country
Ruth... sounds like a conspiracy, eh?
Its true
Seems about right
And therefore africa us now the richest place on earth like the saudi’s wait but they arent. Hm…
In2022 back to 7 years of ore left lol breath taking how deep it is and how hot it is
AY! LITERALLY -- THE CITY EXPERIENCES "WATER SHEDDING" SAID TO B A RESULT OF "LOAD SHEDDING" WHICH IS INCONSISTENT WITH RAND WATER THAT INTERMITTENTLY CUTS WATER SUPPLY AS A RESULT OF LOW DAM/RESERVOIR LEVELS. ONE OF THE MINES NOT ACTIVELY OPERATIONAL HAD ITS TAILING DAMN FLOOD & WASHOUT AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD
Excellent video of a truly unique spot, the World's deepest man-made hole.
Danny Forestor: I'm standing at the deepest point on planet earth
Mariana Trench: Am I a joke to you?
Kola superdeep borehole: Am I a joke to you?
One would say that one is “un-standable”
did anyone else open their mouths
Jack Joseph plz tell me you’re talking about 5:53
i did
They are hazing him. The idea that keeping your mouth closed when a shockwave hits you will cause you to blow out your ear drums is ludicrous.
I bought an asteroid. 😮
Very informative video
Would love to ride that elevator.
Really? The only way I'd love to ride it is going up out of that mine.
Believe me, the novelty soon wears off after a few years
amazing absolutely amazing
The mine in 2.5miles deep.
The commute takes 1.5hours but the elevator goes 40mph?
Mind blowing !
Nope. Mine Blowing.
Looks like they hit an all time high just this April.
WHERE OUR WATER WENT ⚰️💀👻
Incredible and intetesting
Who came here after MBS video?
me
Lol right here
do you realize that world population iz about 8 bln and only 350 mil knows what means 1000 feet? Use the proper units
Imagine the lift spoilt in the middle of ur trip to down there lol
Wow, what an experience
I love the guy tricked ya to lick dynamite 🧨 lol
Is go gone then? It's been 8 years now
I’m watching it 2024 so 5 more years left !
My anxiety 😂… nah this is amazing
How do they breathe??
Biiiiiig money dawg. Big money.
I am by no means claustrophobic, however, there is no way I would ever go down into that mine! :-o
Here from reddit....
no reallifelore.
how they breathe there?
They pump in oxygen.
I remember watching this.
"Yooouuu shall not PASS."
Watching in 2024
After 8 year. Hello I'm from 2022
Interesting
Why is his ear bleeding?
7 years left of mining. I wonder how it's going?
Life of the mine has been extended once more
South Africa was given freedom cause the gold was starting to run out
Such a Drama Queen
All that work to set up those explosives and they could have just used a diamond pick
Who own and parters with this company
2:44 so the mine is 2.5 miles deep but the elevator is 20 miles?!
it goes in at an incline.
We have two elevators. Main and sub then declines
it is pretty fucking amazing
Impressive
4:20 What's mind blowing is the fact that they go down in an elevator that goes 40mph and they don't have any seatbelt or anything, just casually talking like it's nothing :D If that deathtrap really goes that fast downward... then they should be stuck to the ceiling... then to the bottom as they stop... and all of them should be in severe shock from the pressure changes...
Imagine using an elevator twice a day for 21 days straight. The excitement wears off pretty quick. You don’t get sick because you are not deep enough. Being at a depth of around 5000 metres is the equivalent of being 7 metres underwater which is not enough to produce decompression sickness.
If acceleration is controlled, you would barely feel it. We feel acceleration not velocity.
You're literally traveling 67,000mph right now but you'll never feel it. As the other comment said you do not feel velocity...
Wow
Amazing what humans are capable of, just to extract a small amount of metal.
That's minin pard!
i wonder what will happen- oh god, that is right now! i wonder if they did it or not
0:02 its literally not the deepest but ok
City of Gold looks kinda like a shit hole. If I were the people living there, I'd want to know where all the wealth is going.
There is a Gold mine in India. Kolar Gold Fields. Company started first in 1880 by John Taylor and Company. It's depth is 13000 feet
Being a content creator is harder than your 9-5 😂
waching in 2023
but remember woman work so much harder...
Isn't the Marianas Trench deeper
Yes but unstandable
Why don't you go there without heavy diving gear and a submarine and record a documentary for us
All for… trap rappers
who has to watch this for science class
Did these Mfs just eat nitroglycerin 😂
Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest place on earth. This videos very first line of dialogue is a lie.
Opened my mouth
This is why we have ROBOTS. To do crap like this.
Yeah, all of these hardworking miners gets nothing and POS get a hand on these and start bragging about it
Fun fact: gold is pretty useless. Diamonds may be the girls best friend, but they are TOTALLY useless.
You can give me your useless gold 😂
Gold's value is inflated, but it is NOT completely useless, and diamond is in fact extremely useful. Gold does not tarnish easily and is one of the best conductors of electricity without cooling. Diamond has 1000s of uses, from drill bits to semiconductors.
This is incorrect, diamonds actually have many practical uses, being the hardest substance on Earth. It's just that they're really expensive from artificial inflation (but they can also be created synthetically in labs, which is likely to become the primary means of production). Gold also has useful properties but it's genuinely pretty rare.
Nobody cares you hippy
If gold was more common we would use it literally everywhere, gold is very very very useful, great conductor, very stable, incredibly dense, very easy to smelt and melt.
And less than a minute in, a bleeped expletive means I can't show this to my class learning about South African gold mining.
You must be kidding
MinesAGuinness.... it was bleeped for heaven's sake... the kids probably use worse words when hanging out.
Download it and cut it out in any free video editing software
music ruins it
The gold hunters,the others are just pretenders
240p smh xd
kolar gold mine is deepest one
Nope. This mine is about 800 meters deeper than the deepest one in Kolar.
@@maddogmccree2800 That is factually wrong
This gold mine is about 4 kilometers deep.
There is a deeper point in Russia