Lol I was laughing 'cause he was the only one who really understands how to get rich off a gold rush. It was the same way in California. The shop owners and service providers banked way more the average miner
That it is sad. Exploitation of people like that! Even if that's true, $3K will last you a few months in a lot of fvcked up countries like those unless you have like 10 kids or something. And he did that in a single day. Probably there are good and bad days, still, if it wasn't profitable people wouldn't do it. So I stand by my words even if the numbers are not perfect.
"Sand forms when rocks break down from weathering and eroding over thousands and even millions of years." Millions of years ago, all these deserts were Mountains.
I want to open a gold mine in Mauritania. But an equal gold mine where my workers get paid well. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate that. I want to not just help myself, but help good people who deserve it. Like this guy. Thank you
@@carymarshallfelton9188 I guess the difference is Christianity doesn't allow slavery and Jesus didn't own slaves but Christians did. while Islam allows slavery, Mohamad owned slaves and 6 year old brides and Muslims too owned slaves and were the last to abolish slavery
Yeah, where they can pollute the area 100 times faster and spread it all over the country while paying a small percentage to corrupt politicians for "rights", which then the actual citizens lose twice and their next generation and suffer worse. Great idea, I bet you have all the solutions.
Funny enough I was just watching A video in depth about the anuuakai and that there was a lot of gold from previous civilizations in this area. So it all makes sense that they are finding this high quality gold. This area in the world has many more secrets...
It is tragic what people have to endure to survive in collapsed and impoverished economies. I feel so sorry for these guys working in these conditions.
Makes sense as Mauritania was said to be were Atlantis capital city was theyre first king was atlas of the mauri , Sahara was not a desert until after 1700s before that was grassland ..
Lack of goverment and rules are behind this, mercury must be regulated. The price of land and water should be valued higher as it will be toxic for ages.
Government of Muratania should give licence to any international company, Comoany will condut proper fessiblity ans then mining the ore using machines And provide jobs to these people which will be safe. Government can earn their share from that company. It can be win win for every one, instead of putting your people in danger,
Well it is discouraging to hear about the environmental problems related to the gold mining but it is good that there is something for younger men to do in Mauritania. That means fewer heading to the Med to migrate to Europe. And some years ago this country had a problem with Islamic terrorism.
@@briopalumpus8676 and Malian citizens remains poor forever , that's why Europe was forcing democracy on Mali And many African countries who wants to resist exploitation and recolonization.
I live in Nevada, home to tens of dozens of ghost towns that were once thriving gold boom towns. Very few miners got rich, but the merchants did very well. Best of luck to these miners. Very dangerous work and unfortunately very poor environmental mining practices.
@@DWDocumentary great video, except there's a dust color grading makes it biased documentary. See at 10:43 to 10.44. it was clear then suddenly it changes color.
I enjoyed watching and learned much about their methods of mining gold in Mauritania and the risks, even the dangers involved. I send best wishes to them for all their diligent work in pursuing their dreams.
Unfortunately, their dreams, as in other parts of the world where poor people look for gold, cause a lot of misery, environmental pollution, deforestation and deaths among the poorly equipped miners.
It raises many questions -- for so many years, international organizations have been advocating for education and lending a huge amount of money to countries such as Mauritania. But like this guy in the film who went up to the university level but could not find a job. So many people are struggling, despite of so-called "development projects". I hope to see those international organizations especially UN agencies held accountable one day.
Exactly...where are those projects for created for development of underprivileged goes to when the actual people don't get even get the chance to fulfill their dreams
@@corneliankoaze9717 It's UN agencies such as UNDP and UNICEF which dominate and dictate country's development plan. They have 'development plans', but are not necessarily relevant nor effective.
india doesnt have a single gold mine , but just alone indian housewives combined have twice the amount of gold than the gold reserves of usa, australia, canada & european union combined. just imagine u r a young african boy in his early 20s , who has recently lost his parents in a civil war , &u have several younger siblings to look after , & U R THE SOLE breadwinner of the family , for that u r bonded labourer working somewhere in the middle of the sahara, 200 metres below sea level, definitely with no insurance or employee protection, & r highly vulnerable to health problems & getting buried alive & forgotten forever . ur years of fruitless labour will only give u a fraction of the final sales proceeds of that gold jewelery . Meanwhile an affluent girl of ur same age somewhere india would haughtily have a photoshoot sporting her "jewelery" earned of someone elses blood , just because she was born to parents of means & is covered by all possible indian government schemes for no reason. seriously in what world we r living in ????
I feel very sorry for these individuals health and misery 😢 and I wish them the best of luck🍀 if it wasn't because of the pollution I would make my way down there look for some gold myself
The world belongs to all of us I don't hide behind a flag, race or any army! All man should have equal rights to prosper through their own sweat blood and tears and not that of others.
It happened in Algeria too, but the criminal military regime here arrested all the gold searchers, and now those criminal generals take it easily for themselves, nothing for the Algerian ppl.
The mercury issue is huge. My time in gold mining made that extremely apparent. Small miners used mercury for final extraction and many ended their days in misery. I was lucky as my Dad had a long mining history so we took precautions others did not. It’s really bad stuff.
Dear Peter. Can we please speak or at least know more about your experience with mercury? I run a development aid project for artisanal miners in Mauritania and we have a problem with denial among the mining community.
@@lostintashkent Gloves and P3 rated masks. Always. Disposable overalls if possible. Dispose of clothing that has come into contact with mercury in a sealed container. Never let the mercury or water it is associated with run onto the ground. Sealed non corrosive drums to be used and buried with markers stating poisonous substances buried here. Mercury vapour deadly. Avoid at all costs.
For the last few years, it's convincing that the Sahara is full of gold, and it is good that Mauritanians are benefiting directly from artisanal and small gold mines. Thousands of people are getting rich from it all over the Sahara in Northern Chad, Southern Libya, Sudan, and Niger. It is now the new Saharan dream!
Meh, it's actually just more gold for Europe. France has been collecting from Libya, Chad and Niger while Russia has been collecting from Sudan. In order to do this they need inside men aka puppet presidents and officials, France has been doing this since colonial times, nothing new same old same old
I really hope these people become better resourced resourced and organised because there is no reason so many are still poor So their not selling below market price and being cut out of real profit It’s sad.Especially when big companies strike deals and buy the land.
slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1982......1 third of the population still live in slavery in 2023......old muslim tradition who has not disappeared.....allah Akbar.....
This looks dire in many way, but mind you beneath the all smiles and the benign rhetoric a dangerous group of terrorists is taking advantage of this rush in order to finance their activities in the Sahel region. Dominant group is the POLISARIO which has a monopoly on the logistics aspect with financing from the Algerian military junta. The mysterious question is who benefits from the mined gold? And how mining concessions are sold or granted? Who gets the top line when the commodity is sold and bought? Apart from the genuine poor miners trying to make a decent living, how many terror-affiliated foot soldiers are there digging and/or exploiting the real poor miners who are largely sub-saharians turned modern day slaves in order to pay the smugglers for a safe passage northwards to Morocco and then to Europe. Let's be pragmatic there is more to this than what the untrained audience can see. I recognised one of the young men wearing g a USA flag motif t-shirt as a Ghanaian from his slang, pretty sure that kid is not there by choice or free will. Thanks for the content.
Is this Mercury mined out together with gold or they have to add mercury to create amalgamate? If they add, they should evaporate mercury in closed system and reuse it after condensation.
i have a feeling the only one who is gonna get rich is the shop owner doubling his prices for that large captive audience
Lol I was laughing 'cause he was the only one who really understands how to get rich off a gold rush. It was the same way in California. The shop owners and service providers banked way more the average miner
@@someguy1559 I know right I feel like getting over there to set up a shop myself 😅
@@someguy1559 real prospectors don't actually care, they just want to be free
Also the ocean will become very rich. Soon fish are too toxic for human consumption. Good riddance we humans will wipe ourselves out.
Very true, it has happened where ever gold was discovered. A few maybe found some gold. But the ones that got rich were the service providers.
I love this documentary. I can watch it over and over again. Would like to make something like this someday.
It’s great to hear that you like the docu. Good luck, we hope you can make that dream come true :)
@@DWDocumentary plz make docu about western sahara the conflet btwen morroco and algrie
Good informative documentary
Thanks for watching and commenting:)
30K in gold in one day. What are you still doing at the Sahara? Or did you spend everything in one week partying?
gets sold below market rate ! not the spot price u see
@@AB-hu2uw even if it is half. Still enough money to leave the country. In a single day.
@@costafilh0 i doubt its anywhere near half and on top of that any proceeds will feed many mouths
@@costafilh0 most like it's less than 10%.
That it is sad. Exploitation of people like that! Even if that's true, $3K will last you a few months in a lot of fvcked up countries like those unless you have like 10 kids or something. And he did that in a single day. Probably there are good and bad days, still, if it wasn't profitable people wouldn't do it. So I stand by my words even if the numbers are not perfect.
The most precious gold of Mauritania is their music.
"Sand forms when rocks break down from weathering and eroding over thousands and even millions of years." Millions of years ago, all these deserts were Mountains.
More like atlantis tsunami washed gold
I don't think she's right.
It doesnt work that way.
Tell me more about what happened 32,450,666 million years ago. 😉🤣
I want to open a gold mine in Mauritania. But an equal gold mine where my workers get paid well. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate that. I want to not just help myself, but help good people who deserve it. Like this guy.
Thank you
Thanks for sharing these insights.
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Hope they hit the jack pot,it looks daunting.Their hard work is commendable.
I hope they all get rich!!
That was an awesome report❤
Digging 200 meters down in dry sand? Really? 200 meter ?
And vains, in sand? Has it been a river or something? Strange!
So is there a way to provide these miners with appropriate scrubbers whilst they burn the mercury? Would this help?
Any idea what's the bass instrumental playing in the background?
If you want to get rich during a gold rush than open a store to sell to miners!
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The moment she said this town grew a lot recently, then showing couple sheds in the distance lol
Mauretania is a shadow country of 4 million people
What keep growing isso desert and lack water
anyone knows the name of the tracks playing on this video? the intruduction song is very cool!!
Without water hard to sluice
marutania was the last country to abolish slavery in 1982. slavery is a huge part of islam yet majority of Muslims don't know this fact
and Black Mauritanian will be the last to sit at this table
Actually modern world just change his way of slavery and now why all slave
@@carymarshallfelton9188 I guess the difference is Christianity doesn't allow slavery and Jesus didn't own slaves but Christians did. while Islam allows slavery, Mohamad owned slaves and 6 year old brides and Muslims too owned slaves and were the last to abolish slavery
Yeah this is way better than just having a foreign company come and do it safely with machinery.
Yeah, where they can pollute the area 100 times faster and spread it all over the country while paying a small percentage to corrupt politicians for "rights", which then the actual citizens lose twice and their next generation and suffer worse. Great idea, I bet you have all the solutions.
@@Wassup990udueuej they are literally drying trying to get gold behave
Funny enough I was just watching A video in depth about the anuuakai and that there was a lot of gold from previous civilizations in this area. So it all makes sense that they are finding this high quality gold. This area in the world has many more secrets...
@9:27 Is that Mercury Teeth Poisoning?
Short and sweet
They left that Dirt next to the Holes.
You know something is about to Happen. 😅
Denial. Its not just a river in Egypt...
This channel is trying to dismantle these people to find gold
It is tragic what people have to endure to survive in collapsed and impoverished economies. I feel so sorry for these guys working in these conditions.
Society usually reflects its people
Open a map and you ll know why the country is "poor"
Remember people the way to make money in the gold rush is to sell shovels.
If all gold at the.sahara escavated,than the soil may be can grown plant
at the beginning : interested 👀. Later on : nope, i won't do that, i'm not into gold anyway
4:50 Soundtrack please
Makes sense as Mauritania was said to be were Atlantis capital city was theyre first king was atlas of the mauri , Sahara was not a desert until after 1700s before that was grassland ..
It is... just the desert. It is not a carbon sink. It's bio-productivity is minimal.
I'd rather this get trashed than rain forrest
Wow - What Some Folks have to do 4 A Living..
Ubarikiwe..
Lack of goverment and rules are behind this, mercury must be regulated. The price of land and water should be valued higher as it will be toxic for ages.
Wild……
This is stupidity. They are risking their life for nothing.
How a out equal pay ?
Now that gold has been found, perhaps Mauritania 🇲🇷 can subsidise the reparations to the blacks in America 🇺🇸!
Reparations?
And why is that?
God help them. This is desperation to risk ur life for metal.
Good gold
Government of Muratania should give licence to any international company,
Comoany will condut proper fessiblity ans then mining the ore using machines And provide jobs to these people which will be safe.
Government can earn their share from that company. It can be win win for every one, instead of putting your people in danger,
Well it is discouraging to hear about the environmental problems related to the gold mining but it is good that there is something for younger men to do in Mauritania. That means fewer heading to the Med to migrate to Europe. And some years ago this country had a problem with Islamic terrorism.
Saw it and sad .nothing arrives there .simpatic poor people .there gold Will go same like from others .taken .for a Golden door or floor .bone gold
Maybe they will find atlantis
Where will the gold 🪙 be taken to ?
To people with the money to buy it. Is it not obvious?
China probably they are buying all of it they can get.
maybe dubai, malis gold gets smuggked to dubai.
@@briopalumpus8676 and Malian citizens remains poor forever , that's why Europe was forcing democracy on Mali And many African countries who wants to resist exploitation and recolonization.
America -They need democracy now..
French army is already there
Finding GOLD is more easier than finding a VISA.. I totally agree with him on that 😂😂😂
I live in Nevada, home to tens of dozens of ghost towns that were once thriving gold boom towns. Very few miners got rich, but the merchants did very well. Best of luck to these miners. Very dangerous work and unfortunately very poor environmental mining practices.
With that logic we have few lions left
Yep. The best way to make money during a gold rush is from behind a store's countertop.
@@yourmom9608 Who are the lions?
@@weirdshibainu u will know until it sell at wealthiest place like milan or dubai and labeled as SAHARA GOLD
@@pwd7006 It won't be labeled Sahara Gold
200m deep? By shoveling? This is insane!
Great video! Thanks for highlighting an issue that few people are aware of.
Thanks for watching:)
@@DWDocumentary great video, except there's a dust color grading makes it biased documentary. See at 10:43 to 10.44. it was clear then suddenly it changes color.
Spain, Germany, Canada for study. Yeah right. 😂
At least he applying not getting on a boat
Good Luck Mauritanian Brothers ,much love from Tunisia
Thank God i am not a gold miner.
Wanna know EXACTLY where this is going ? Watch The Gold Mafia documentary on Al Jazeera smh
Thats true man
this gold land need freedom
Good old 'murica is ready to bring all the freedom they need lol
And democracy
Also some Wagner theft. 😁
Hope is what drives people
I've mined 500g of gold in my grannies backyard
Human greed is why life on earth is hard and dangerous.
Humans going back to work mining gold for the Anunnaki.
I bet the shopowner's gonna be 100x richer than any of these miners, or he might already be 100 times richer.
I enjoyed watching and learned much about their methods of mining gold in Mauritania and the risks, even the dangers involved. I send best wishes to them for all their diligent work in pursuing their dreams.
Unfortunately, their dreams, as in other parts of the world where poor people look for gold, cause a lot of misery, environmental pollution, deforestation and deaths among the poorly equipped miners.
Did you see how it is mined in Chad & west africa ?? Which then goes for refining in Switzerland and sold with their brand name
They all gonna die in poverty.
Ghana empire used to get its gold from there.
@@AfricanMaverick I guess ”empire” is a relative term
NO METAL DETECTORS ???? Really ? CMON MAN ! lol Send in Parker from Gold rush and he'll mine that place clean in a season !!!!
It raises many questions -- for so many years, international organizations have been advocating for education and lending a huge amount of money to countries such as Mauritania. But like this guy in the film who went up to the university level but could not find a job. So many people are struggling, despite of so-called "development projects". I hope to see those international organizations especially UN agencies held accountable one day.
Exactly...where are those projects for created for development of underprivileged goes to when the actual people don't get even get the chance to fulfill their dreams
What have UN agencies to do with the lack of development plans of the government in Mauretania?
@@corneliankoaze9717 It's UN agencies such as UNDP and UNICEF which dominate and dictate country's development plan. They have 'development plans', but are not necessarily relevant nor effective.
Never happen
@@MSMS-ug3zu They man try to dictate but they surely do not dominate.
india doesnt have a single gold mine , but just alone indian housewives combined have twice the amount of gold than the gold reserves of usa, australia, canada & european union combined.
just imagine u r a young african boy in his early 20s , who has recently lost his parents in a civil war , &u have several younger siblings to look after , & U R THE SOLE breadwinner of the family , for that u r bonded labourer working somewhere in the middle of the sahara, 200 metres below sea level, definitely with no insurance or employee protection, & r highly vulnerable to health problems & getting buried alive & forgotten forever . ur years of fruitless labour will only give u a fraction of the final sales proceeds of that gold jewelery .
Meanwhile an affluent girl of ur same age somewhere india would haughtily have a photoshoot sporting her "jewelery" earned of someone elses blood , just because she was born to parents of means & is covered by all possible indian government schemes for no reason.
seriously in what world we r living in ????
I feel very sorry for these individuals health and misery 😢 and I wish them the best of luck🍀 if it wasn't because of the pollution I would make my way down there look for some gold myself
What Would you look for some gold in country who are not yours !?
The world belongs to all of us I don't hide behind a flag, race or any army! All man should have equal rights to prosper through their own sweat blood and tears and not that of others.
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@@aghileshemdani3144 cause America needs to send some freedom over there, you guys found gold we gonna take it 😂
It happened in Algeria too, but the criminal military regime here arrested all the gold searchers, and now those criminal generals take it easily for themselves, nothing for the Algerian ppl.
Lol wtf are you talking about?
@@thedstorm8922 algeria is ruled by the military
The mercury issue is huge. My time in gold mining made that extremely apparent. Small miners used mercury for final extraction and many ended their days in misery. I was lucky as my Dad had a long mining history so we took precautions others did not. It’s really bad stuff.
Dear Peter. Can we please speak or at least know more about your experience with mercury? I run a development aid project for artisanal miners in Mauritania and we have a problem with denial among the mining community.
@@lostintashkent Gloves and P3 rated masks. Always. Disposable overalls if possible. Dispose of clothing that has come into contact with mercury in a sealed container. Never let the mercury or water it is associated with run onto the ground. Sealed non corrosive drums to be used and buried with markers stating poisonous substances buried here. Mercury vapour deadly. Avoid at all costs.
For the last few years, it's convincing that the Sahara is full of gold, and it is good that Mauritanians are benefiting directly from artisanal and small gold mines. Thousands of people are getting rich from it all over the Sahara in Northern Chad, Southern Libya, Sudan, and Niger. It is now the new Saharan dream!
Meh, it's actually just more gold for Europe. France has been collecting from Libya, Chad and Niger while Russia has been collecting from Sudan. In order to do this they need inside men aka puppet presidents and officials, France has been doing this since colonial times, nothing new same old same old
Oh wow! That’s cool, I wonder how much gold is there
@@charleskavoukjian3441 last year artisanal mines do more the 20 tonnes of gold
@@ahmeddoudi5391 woah! Thats a lot of gold. It must be bottomless
I really hope these people become better resourced resourced and organised because there is no reason so many are still poor
So their not selling below market price and being cut out of real profit
It’s sad.Especially when big companies strike deals and buy the land.
Looks like the ones selling food, shovels, spares and equipments, building materials will be making more money than the ones going for gold.
slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1982......1 third of the population still live in slavery in 2023......old muslim tradition who has not disappeared.....allah Akbar.....
Hope some of them can make it rich!!
So many peoples become rich
“Finding a visa is more difficult then finding gold”
Good luck and get rich my friends!
dude with the store is the real genius
Burning thousands of tires in the empty holes would be better for the environment than all that mercury.
Humans are horrible.
Narrator's voice, resembles jim browning's. i think.
Best hope to these hardworking people!
As always with gold mining the people that set up the shops are the ones who will get wealthy
imagine a guy who decides its easier to rob these people vs digging.
who is that you're talking about ??
Islam speaks of this prophecy. They will all die. End of times is near.
I thought that will be in Iraq?
And the eye of the sahara grows red once more.
Amazing documentary
This looks dire in many way, but mind you beneath the all smiles and the benign rhetoric a dangerous group of terrorists is taking advantage of this rush in order to finance their activities in the Sahel region. Dominant group is the POLISARIO which has a monopoly on the logistics aspect with financing from the Algerian military junta.
The mysterious question is who benefits from the mined gold? And how mining concessions are sold or granted? Who gets the top line when the commodity is sold and bought? Apart from the genuine poor miners trying to make a decent living, how many terror-affiliated foot soldiers are there digging and/or exploiting the real poor miners who are largely sub-saharians turned modern day slaves in order to pay the smugglers for a safe passage northwards to Morocco and then to Europe.
Let's be pragmatic there is more to this than what the untrained audience can see.
I recognised one of the young men wearing g a USA flag motif t-shirt as a Ghanaian from his slang, pretty sure that kid is not there by choice or free will.
Thanks for the content.
Humanity is a non-stop disaster.
If per their findings on the Mercury and its effect on the environment and the ecosystem, the whole of West Africa is on time bomb.
China will come and 'help them'.
Is this Mercury mined out together with gold or they have to add mercury to create amalgamate? If they add, they should evaporate mercury in closed system and reuse it after condensation.
I am a fan of the DW documentary. I am eagerly waiting for when the new documentary videos released.
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u are killing it!
Bring him a Nobel Prize please
Informative video
omg it looks like the movie holes form above.
In sha Allah
go get the gold, guys!
you can do it!
The richest man in the history of earth came from this country, and it was because of the gold
Here we go again
Thank you for your channel for shedding light on prospectors in Mauritania
Can I go to Mauritania create a company with jobs for people and have not be kill for being Catholics Christian ?