"a machine can't go inside the furnace to bring out the glass" is such a sad statement, those people don't even realise the scope of industrialization and automatization

What I feel is immense salute for these men. They are so responsible to feed their families even risking their own lives to give food to the table.

it's a good reminder of how good you have it, when you watch awareness content like this, don't sweat the small stuff

33:27 / 49:33: I can feel the terribleness of going deep inside. Salute to the video maker. The workers are very brave and hardworking working-class Pashtuns. U can feel their hardship and what it is like to be there. The sad part is the USA, and the Soviets were bombarding the homes of these poor people for 40 years.

Seeing him sift through that drain sludge bare-handed made me cringe. I worked in an animal hospital for years and had to clean out some pretty gnarly drains that would accumulate some pretty similar looking sludge.

Habib from Afghanistan seems like such a good guy. I wish him and his family the best in his new home near the mine.

Everyone keeps saying that there's no more gold to find, or that it takes millions to get even a pound of gold. I prospected and mined for years, finding a lot of gold. Up until I broke my back. I can go to the Smith River, and easily find gold, because I know what to look for in a river, that tells me that a certain spot would have gold. And even at the Klamath River's ocean head, deposits fine gold every year, after heavy rain and floods. You can easily find it by pulling out a shrub that acts like a sive. There's still so much gold to be found, but the state and government regulations, prevent a person from flooding the economy with new gold, platinum and gems. They have all but shut down dredging, which actually cleans out the lead and mercury, left by a couple hundred years of mining, by those who didn't understand the devastation that those metals cause. It has become a crime to possess mercury while panning, or mining private claims. There's still so much gold to be found, and mined.

This is so very sad to watch. These people risk their lives for such little pay. It's a damn shame these mine owners don't pay them enough. Prayers and respect to all of these people who bring these precious and beautiful stones to the world.

I am a miner and prospector in my spare time and it can be gruelling work but after seeing this it makes me appreciate how easy my work is compared to the struggle these people have to go through just to earn a living

Imagine being the laborer that foundthe star of Adam getting paid 3$ a day and then giving it to the mine owners who get even richer , if I was the one who found it I woulda kept it and then sold it myself for a million that woulda been life changing even for us 1st world folk

It's very heart-wrenching watching these videos as it really brings home what a very inequable world this is, if I could have just one wish it would be that the world is a more equable world where nobody goes hungry or has to do such awful work.

My respect to all this hardworking people. ❤

Electronic companies should be required to design products with an optimal lifespan as well. Stuff gets thrown away because it’s all junk compared to the older days. Also maybe design more stuff to be upgradeable, and don’t release a halfway new product every 12 months. I guess that would also lay at the consumer’s feet to be content with what they have. But I don’t see that happening.

Each tragedy deserves its own video. Blending them together makes it feel less important when every single one of these tragedies needs to end!!!!!!!

This is Amazing how people risk their lives to get Gems, silver,gold to feed their Families! I wish that I had a Scientific solution to this problem. I pray that someone will find a way for us to recycle materials and make easy and safe for the miners to go into the minds to extract Gemstones. We as human being must find a solution to these problems. We must! I pray🙏🏽

Without jewellery industry what would these people do? The problem is middlemen not paying market rates, and the issue of the workers having to borrow at high rates to informal lenders (Muhammed Yunus discussed this at length prior his microfinance Grameen bank). But these people have been digging jewels for nobility for thousands to at least the Ice Age. Life has never been easy for most.

Kudos to the computer and phone recyclers! Wish many more would do this!

🔥11:09 this is one of the greatest classic skills that people learned on their own sitting near a campfire from artistic gems to samurai swords👏🏽😎🔥

That was fascinating from start to end.

What a very entertaining and educational movie this was. i feel badly about those poor people's health and shortened life span. God bless them all.

Watching this its really made me super grateful of what i have even its not much but 100 times easier than what they are doing all this hard work so they can barley but food on the table really sad and heartbreaking

Watching from Belize central america I'm from and thanks for the upload VICE news!! I have huge respect for miners and prospectors because it's a dangerous job!! Belize don't have miners yet searching for precious gems and gold because our country have a lot of protected forests for example the maya mountains corridors in Belize i believe have gold to be discovered!!✌🏽🙏🌎🇧🇿

These people are admirable. They work extremely hard work under inhumane conditions, risking their lives and health every day for very little money. God Bless Them. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love that they are using the microbes for the collecting procsess. Just as he said "given enough time and pressure microbes can thrive anywhere" Just like the microbes that are eating plastic in the ocean. The earth has its own ways of evolving to deal with problems. even long after we are gone it will continue to do so.

Thanks For the content my friend spot on information It's very good to be well informed when selling gold silver or platinum nowadays And thanks for the information

Harsh. Don't think it won't get as harsh for all of us at some point. 40ft isn't that deep, look at that gold mine in South Africa.

This was interesting to watch Thank you

Geez Louise! And some people here in America think they have , got it soooo bad! It boils down to a few groups of people wanting to have 9 9.9% of the worlds' wealth at the expense of peoples lives, health, as well as to every aspect of our physical world!! Its' ALL ABOUT MONEY. AND POWER! This makes me beyond sad and VERY ANGRY! Peace to All...💜💙💜

Fascinating insight into something i didn't even know existed those pearl's whao that takes dedication.

Very well done documentary. It’s inspiring to see how hard these people work and realize what a lot of us take for granted.

Very interesting piece, thank you for posting.

It's hurt to see this, many people suffer for a little amount of money just to make end meets😔

Great show beautiful job

Luv this ❤

Excellent doc. Man st the beginning was literally sifting through waste. I have no room to complain

I can’t imagine there’s that high of a demand for bangles. Glass ones…no one wears them in my area anyways

"factory gives you everything, if you get burned you get ointment" XD

Good video bro..👌

Having a job doesn't mean security rather having different investments is the real deal

It would be nice if Business Insider included if there's any way to help these people

Fantastic insight to these People, may God honor them in future

very nice doc, thank you!

Insider 👏.. Has A Son of Afrika.. Wishing All Workers Greater Rewards For Work Undertaken.. Ubarikiwe..

Sir, you are well respected and admired 👏🙏✌️

this video make me more humble as see alot of people has trouble for their livelihood

Enjoyed this broadcast very much, thank you for sharing this with everyone.

Very informative! Excellent in all respects. Shows how hard life can be for the poor and how the middleman makes the bulk of the profit. Thanks you for this video.

This goes to show how good most of us have it. Even the poorest of Americans can make more than 8 bucks for a days work

This makes me not want to wear real jewelry and jewels. This is terrible!! The trouble these ppl go thru for pennies in order for us to wear gold n gems? Absolutely terrible!!! I think I’m gonna quit wearing jewelry. Or at least never buy anymore from this day forward.

19:00 i used to dissasemble electronics and remove the precious metals. Not on this kind of scale though!

300 million gem. Bet the person who found it got about £10

This is really sad, these men risk their lives daily only to make so little! The buyer's make most of the money? It's not fair..🙏♥️♥️♥️🙏

My job is like a hobby for me now that I see how hard their job is.. ❤ respect to you guys

*Beautiful documentary , full of knowledge*

That’s a great idea! Fern to block the sand! Great idea

My family have a jewelmine on Sri Lanka and I can say that we treat our workers defintly better. We pay theyr food build them a house and farmers build rice on the unused property

Like, where can I purchase directly from these in this video 😢 I would love to support them.❤

Fascinating

Man.. I don't envy their work but I'd like to be able to find gemstones and other valuable stuff where I live - I've pretty much dreamed of that my entire life. And I know things are different around the world - with different lifestyles, qualities of life, costs of living, etc. but when I hear of someone making like $9 a day or $140 a month, I can't help but think of trivial things I've spent those amounts on... Like $9? That's roughly the cost of a few energy drinks for work (12 hour shift in a sawmill though) or $140 - that's like a big bag of dog food, maybe some milk and cereal, a few random snacks and drinks, deodorant and maybe some toilet paper or something... But then you hear of these guys making that amount and being able to support a wife, 10-15+ kids, maybe parents and siblings, extended family, etc. - and that's like buying food, keeping everyone clothed, getting all the other essential necessities, putting kids through school and so on. Like where the one girl makes what amounts to $1 a day and they asked her what she would spend it on and she said she'd save some and give the rest to her dad - it's just wild - I know $1 translates to several rupees, but still, doesn't seem like you could split it many ways..

Amazing episode

That guy blowing in the tube for several hrs must be high as a kite from the lack of oxygen. I get dizzy blowing up a balloon wth lol

*Great documentary*

My brother makes a living off of taking gold and whatever else off of electronics. People in the U.S. have no idea how easy they have it. Safe in their own little bubble. And hell yeah for Habib and his new home.

Great video

whenever i watch this stuff i stop feeling sorry for myself and thank god i was born in the US. weve got it so good. too bad it wont stay that way.

Excellent documentary. Thank you.

Gotta love profiting off another man's labor and giving him nothing whilst you live in wealth. It's the key reason we have all the problems in the world that we do. Most criminals wouldn't be criminals if criminals didn't steal all the money these people make for them. So to everyone who says "Why does a retail or fast food worker deserve a living wage." I say we make up 98% of your working economy...without us, you have nothing, no workers to run registers or stock shelves...PAY UP!!!!!

Really good

This is awful. Yes on one hand these individuals are paying their bills and supporting their families. But on the other, their lifespans are shortened for what? To wear a piece of jewelry? Huge respect to these men, they are the ones in the S#!+hole to keep the 100,000 people reliant on this industry.

Yeah, I'm now looking at my very modest jewelry collection in a new light.

It was amazing. Thank you for sharing.

Very brave people.

Thank u insider

It is hard work but a man gotta do what he can to feed his family

Videos that would make you feel lucky with the job you have. Be thankful.

I could watch these videos all day ❤️

Incredibly hard work for what is a cup of coffee for most people.

It's very sad to see how hard these people have to work to feed their families. I wish there was a better ways. May God help them and improve their lives.

18:18 why he push him like that lmao

Very instructive for those people who hate their job in an office for thousands of dollars a month.

Very beautiful gem And what a skill

My respect to all this hardworking people.

Fascinating The Philosopher's Stone. In 1980, gold was successfully made by a team of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Nuclear chemists Glenn T. Seaborg, David J. Morrissey and Walter D. Loveland used a high energy nuclear particle accelerator known as the Bevalac which transformed the metal bismuth into gold. The process is known as "Chrysopoeia".

I feel like, instead of making a documentary, make a fundraiser to improve these ppl's lives, like the bangle makers, Make them some masks, tehres tonnes in the world now! give them some goggles. theres alot of small things you could do to help them instead of profitting of them as well.

17:15 They make approx $9750 from processing a ton of circuit board material... that's probably not much considering the cost of equipment and other resources.

Having 12 kids must not help

The blue Sapphire shown qte glass field worth 1 $ /ct & the big star shapire is gray in color and of every low quality in fact cant be used in the jewelery industry, they try to sell the store for a decade now they never had an offer

150 grams of Gold is worth $9,227.00 today, so... How much does it cost to process the E-waste to make those 150 g of gold?? Is it economical yet?? E-waste is a HUGE "SOCIAL" AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM!! "Social", cuz we ALL do it!! 😮 Economic problem too 😮

Talked about gold for 2 minutes🔥

If watching poor people, mine some of the most expensive gems in the world with no safety doesn't say something then you're not listening. Just wild...

I wish this was in the Philippines. This is great.

I watched this about 5 years ago but I'll watch it again because I'm bored and can't sleep its 2:50AM

Nice...

excellent

I salute this guy working in streets, rather than sitting there and big for food,

I have an idea for doing something about e-wastes in India. But settings up of such huge industry like setup I don't have much capital. Will try in future if can do something about this 🙏 All the best guys ❤❤

only jimmy would know the viscosity of money in a giant cube :)

Oprah: "Being a mother is the hardest job on Earth"... Pakistan miner: "Hold my rupees."

150 g per ton that's amazing

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