In the goldmine, you're a nickel

An emissary from a big mining company would be here soon... with a paper in his hand showing we had no right to be here.

Been sitting' up in the mine for two days.

It's like the canary in the coalmine.

It's a coalmining region, the Borinage.

The Madrid Protocol prohibits mining.

Why, when the digging's here?

Be here in the morning when I go to work.

Look, Curt, there's a vein of it, here, in this rock.

I'm sick and tired of his prospecting. I want him out.

Not that there ain't plenty of the real stuff here.

And that's where the richest diamond deposits are.

Countless lives have been saved by canaries in coalmines a simple and invaluable way for miners to know whether they're safe.

In 2015 alone, Freeport mined some 3.1 billion worth of gold and copper here.

And they said, you know what happens is, mineral just like at your house mineral builds up.

Here, look at this rock. It's full of gold. Veins of it.

It'll be like having a gold mine in your own back yard.

Mud and minerals become substrate there are bacteria.

And the reason I was interested in getting water is because water which goes through mines becomes kind of acidic and will start picking up, dissolving the minerals from the mine.

Again, this mine was once the largest copper mine in the world.

This is one of the mines. It doesn't have any beryllium in it.

Suriname views gold as a substitute for the declining bauxite industry and is aggressively pursuing investment.

New Caledonia's economy is dominated by the nickel industry.

That's what the property was originally built around it was a set of mining claims. It was a very productive silver mine.

Currently, there are only 8 mines that are in production in the country 4 diamond mines, 2 copper nickel mines, 1 gold mine, 1 soda ash mine and 1 coal mine.

And they said scaling, which is the build up of minerals inside of pipes.

As you can see, it's got lots and lots of minerals dissolved in it.

This is the coal supply for the steel factory 18 square kilometers.

There exist no more miserable people on the face of the earth... than the miners who live there.

CHAPTER V PROTECTION OF COAL MINING AREAS

I'll take a Vichy water, sir. Vichy!

At the moment there are no mining developments in the CKGR.

The Freeport Mines Company control the whole economy of Irian Jaya.

One day I'm deep in the brush and Curtin's on his way to get provisions.

The embargo on the export of diamonds from Liberia is rapidly becoming ineffective, as miners dig with a flagrant disregard for national or United Nations authority.

You've worked in mining, you've worked in fishing, you've worked in steel, you've worked in every major industry.

Wolframite occurs with cassiterite.

ln a mine (ECHOING) ln a mine

That sand that Devlin brought in shows uranium ore.

Commodities are things that you grow in the ground, raise on the ground or pull out of the ground basically, animal, mineral, vegetable.

Summary of gold, cassiterite and wolframite comptoirs approved by the Ministry of Mines

The financial administration of the National Transitional Government of Liberia is weak, with non existent internal control systems and ineffective external oversight systems. There is a lack of transparency and accountability in the system.

And the miners in the early part of the last century worked, literally, in candlelight.

It has assisted Eritrea in creating an enabling environment for investment in the mineral sector.

And Alexander Rose on the left there worked with a bunch of people from the National Park to survey the whole mine. It's a mile deep.