AMEN! AS A MATTER OF FACT THE WARS WHICH ARE GOING ON WHICH THE UNITED STATES BLAMES ON OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE IT HAS TO IT CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW DISGUSTING IT IS AND EVEN WHEN IT COMES OUT 20 TO 50 YEARS LATER THE UNITED STATES NEVER APOLOGIZES OR MAKES A MAN'S OR HOLDS ITS OWN ACCOUNTABLE FOR WAR CRIMES WHICH ARE FAR WORSE THAN HITLER OR STALIN COMMITTED. THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT FOR AMERICA SO WE CAN DRIVE A HUNDRED MILES ONE WAY ON A TANK OF CHEAP GAS TO BUY HALF A BAG OF S*** WE DON'T NEED NO MATTER WHOSE KID DIES NO MATTER WHO CATCHES CANCER NO MATTER WHAT PALESTINIANS ARE DRIVEN OUT OF THEIR HOMELAND FURTHER BY THE ISRAELIS SO THE ISRAELIS CAN STEAL THEIR OFFSHORE OIL WHICH WAS DISCOVERED 20 YEARS AGO AS IF STEALING THEIR HOMELAND WASN'T ENOUGH... JOOSKUM AND AMERICUNTS BROUGHT A KNIFE INTO THE RING AND WON THE FIGHT AND THEN CONTROLLED HISTORY AFTERWARD BY DOMINATING AND INTIMIDATING THE JUDGES...
Say it louder. Much louder. As matter of fact don't bother saying at all. Its unlikely than an African cobalt miner speaks english or has youtube. But you sleep soundly knowing that you saved the world with your keyboard. Lets go Brandon.
I want to see more of Mistar on his job in the sulfur mine, he’s so humble and it seems like he loves telling his story. I love seeing how other countries workers’ stories on how they make a living, since I know I haven’t had the same struggle.
Awee, the last stuff the lady said was very inspirational. You can tell she put her whole soul into this stuff and if something means that much to someone you know that the value of the product is true. :) Amazing woman.
hate to see that sulfur and coal mining ... government and mining company should do something to lighten the miners load like rails to carry their products, transportation and gears... greedy people taking advantage of the miners //SMH
i agree..the government or mining company can more than double profits if they make it easier for the miners, in reality them not making it easier for them is just hurting their own bottom dollar in the end
I say you put your OWN MONEY up and start your OWN MINING company and do all the things you say others should do and see how much money you have left.... ppl with NO MONEY - bark orders around as if money does not exist.
life outside of the western world and some developed non wester nations. people forget the paradise we have built. Ours is not the 'normal state of things', theirs is.
I can't imagine the face a new opal miner gets whenever he's told by someone who's got 40-years of experience, "You've got just as much a chance at me dawg, good luck g 👍"
If any worker in the world deserves a Go Fund Me. the sulfur miners do! If I could do it myself, I would in a heart beat but I am disabled. Bless them!🔥🔥
@user-iy1vo2jf2q That's a lot of assumptions without proof from your mouth, chill he's not robbing your riches, keep it in your pocket he's just telling his story and somehow you are the one that gets an attitude.
It takes LITERALLY the same effort to create a gofundme as that ludicrous self serving comment that you posted. Unless of course if your disability prevents you from doing almost nothing.
In Vancouver Canada people actually believe if it costs more it must be better. Because of this simple mindedness people have been taking full advantage by simply charging more for the same product which draws a wealthier customer base. Starbucks and marijuana dispensaries are examples of this. Tim Hortons sales went up after raising the prices and offering stronger tasting coffees.
I got the rock bug in 2008-2009, starting going down the Appalacians digging for quartz, then looking for smoky quartz and amethyst, then garnets, then pyrite cubes, then emerald/beryl (which the locals call "burl"), then aquamarine (also "burl"), then corundum (ruby/sapphire which the locals call "saffarr") and you just get SUCKED RIGHT IN. Before you know it, you'll be digging up stuff you never even knew to exist before you got into the rockhound hobby. "Oooh, kyanite!" "Wow! Blue fluorite!" "Oooh Elbaite!" Now (15 years later) I still love hunting quartz, beryl, corundum, and anything shiney and pretty, but I'm also on a little bit of a "gold" kick now. Looking for prospecting sites now and when the weather breaks, Ill be out in those ancient mountains looking for treasure. For me, crystals arent "healing" or any new-age bullsh... They're just beautiful miracles created by our Earth, and being the FIRST and ONLY person to ever see their immense beauty as you unearth them for the first time, helping them receive their first photons of sunlight in a hundred million years to reveal a geological miracle.... well, that's just a special experience I cant put into words. Spiritual almost... Go dig! But beware, its hard work! (not that any rockhound minds doing it)
@@AndrewJ951 "Therapeutic" ??? Absolutely... That's a very wise mineral dealer. However, "Imbued with magical abilities based on "vibrations"???" Naaah, horsefeathers. I don't buy that new-agey horsecrap "Oh this peridot and adventurine will purify your throat chakra!"
@@sethstatler8480 First, read some local rockhound websites (North Carolina and Virgnia have very active geology club scenes... sounds dorky, but they do) so you know WHERE to start looking, then just get out on the weekends, trek into the woods (where its legal to dig) and start looking for cool rocks. In much of central Virgina and western and central North Carolina, you can dig down to the clay layer and start pulling out quartz crystals if you're in a "hot" area. The fancy stuff (aquamarine, sapphire, garnet etc...) is usually in the mountains... but you can find pyrite and calcite and whatnot in highway road cuts. I mean... its just reading online to learn where things are and then going to find them!
@@sethstatler8480 1. get yourself a rock and mineral guide or encyclopedia, know that there's difference between a mineral, and a rock, ex. Serpentine is a rock, Serpentinite is the mineral Serpentine is almost exclusively composed of, don't concern yourself with memorizing the chemical name of a mineral, can be handy tho when prospecting knowing what elements or chemical make up of region, so here its Silicon Dioxide aka the chemical name for Quartz mineral, or the crystal that composes most of the aka Granite rock, but then there's also crystal names - quartz crystal, and gemstone names - alexandrite, and don't get me started on pseudomorphs - carnelian, Agate, Rose quartz....im digressing really main thing know what it is thats grabbing you, is the prospecting thats fun, is it the lure of value? is it simply there beauty and looks? For me liking all 3 the ladder the most followed by next former so forth, since its the beauty i like i spend most my time tumbling rock in rock tumblers, currently in process of making home version so can process like 30 pounds at one time but to be able to turn the most dirty looking average rock off the ground an turn it to the most mesmerizing specimen is mind boggling, cuz of that i don't have to prospect much , i still do somewhat but thats for the value lure to find a crystal with as little inclusions as possible, get it faceted (if i could afford the facete machine ws id do it myself, and get some decent dough out of it is quite appealing especially considering its just a hobby, but one that pays you back few 1,000 every so often
Well, when we the "1st world inhabitants" drop our old out-of-style clothes in the "donate your lightly used garments" boxes, I imagine these impoverished nations is where they all go. Doesn't surprise me. If they can use my old Affliction T-shirts from 2014, good for them!
I used to work as a sound technician for a media company a couple of years back, you always gotta pay up or bring something if they gonna sit in front of a camera or follow them around during work hours because they can't afford to lose focus or time. It can get really tricky if the words spreads around, that's why you usually have some "security" with you who can easily communicate or whatever. Remember one guide/security guy we had in India near the border who told us to get the interviewee goats or chickens instead of money because they lasted longer.
I know many people believe those items are the most expensive, but just like many other things will it protect you will it nourish you like water 💧 Water is the most useful thing for you
Maslow's hierarchy of needs. At the base is food, water, shelter. Once you have those, then humans set their sights on other things, like entertainment. But they'll always go back to basic needs.
The sulphur miners are breathing in the toxic gas all day everyday but they are worried about social distancing? Really you've got bigger things to worry about
You don't know how LETHAL Covid is then. The toxic gas is chipping your life away bits by bits. But Covid is a lethal virus, one day you're healthy but in 1-2 days you will get huge fever, can't taste anything, huge headache and Insomnia. And its easily spreading. Those miners have a family too you know.
To those miners in Indonesia, mining Sulfur, you are incredible, for $17.00 a day. I honestly salute you, that's not enough for the dangers you subject yourself to. If I could do more I would.
You can do more. Quit helping corporations profit on the exploitation of the LIMITED resources on this planet. If we rape this planet to extinction then we all pay that price. Name ONE corporation that cares about you. Those miners do that job because it's the best paying job in that region. How much is the Corporation making on their misery? Are there death benefits paid to the family when those workers die prematurely? You can do more. Quit feeling bad, be a voice.
@@schnitzelhannes6431 what bs? the poorest person today is in fact several magnitudes richer than the poorest person 150 years ago. Globalization & expansion of trade as is reasonable for the best living conditions ever experienced for ever single human
39:12 I don’t believe that a lot of opal people normally find sells for $1k or more a karot or everyone and their mothers would be polishing rocks in Australia, I think it’s a very small sample size of opal that sells for that price. I feel the opal market is exaggerated a little bit with the TV shows and all that, and also because opal has to be made into a certain kind of jewelry, it’s not a traditional stone that would be set in a ring or necklace like a diamond or a sapphire, so that limits the market even more. I’m not saying opal isn’t beautiful and isn’t expensive I just think there is a small portion of opal that’s top notch and that has been exaggerated a little bit over the years for the sake of TV.
The Sulphur is derived from a natural variation of the Claus Process. The oxidation-reduction production of native Sulphur. The original gas is hydrogen sulphide, which is more deadly than cyanide gas. This is partially burnt to Sulphur dioxide, and this is then reacted with unburnt hydrogen sulphide, they form the auto oxidation production of Sulphur. There are volcanoes where S is produced from volcanoes in Chile, with some of the elevations exceed 17,000 to 18,000 feet. They are now closed, but were operated for almost a hundred years to provide sulphuric acid for the nitrate and copper industries. These guys would knock off and play soccer in the evening at an elevation most people would faint at! The men in Indonesia are still working in between 10,000 and 11,000 feet. You should try climbing the trail next to them!
Over the course of history, humans have proven time and again their adaptability to their environs. Let us all hope that adaptability carries humanity well into the future. Unless the idiots bring ruin upon us all.
some ppl's advices suck because it's really not advice. parrot copying another parrot and thinking they cured cancer is the product of public schooling.
These documentaries only scratch the surface of the shady business and corruption that goes all they way to the political top and foreign buyers controlling the market. That's where the real interesting stories lay, to bad the media bosses want none of that,. The only thing they want is crude sob stories so they can sell it and get a high viewer count nothing else. Also the production were absolute terrible, whispering narrator trying to overcompensate for som bs. Not a fan of these type of documentaries at all. Its weak and people see right thru it except middle aged mothers watching this on TV sobbing their eyes out for the poor workers not being able to grasp the bigger picture of how messed up all of this is ..
it's likely not one company. Sulfur is a commodity, probably on the global exchange. Available to any company that wants to purchase it. Like tire manufacturers. Enjoy that drive to the store, cheap labor made it possible.
It looks like miners in Indonesia would use a pulley system on a rail of types or an overhead pully by manpower or an engine. They would do 5 x as much maybe ever 10 times as much. So, any system that increased the output would pay for itself quickly, i believe. And double or triple the money for the owner and laborers. Just thinking 🤔
I think it's just because of the country's policy that requires companies to implement social distancing for their workers. If they don't, the place will probably be forced to close.
Tin floating is absolutely insane there using a gas motor to supply the air for HOURS and to communicate they pinch the tube...!?!? bro what the actual F*** they have it all setup to be hit or miss like how where did the crew for this rig come from?? How do they have dozens of these bunk boats?? I have so many questions-
I subscribed for the massive plagiarizer Neri Oxman, Business Insider did an incredible job bringing light to the situation. Finally a source I can trust
I am amazed that Indonesia can market their volcanic sulfur when the oil industry can't market their sulfur in some parts of the world despite it's high purity in industrial amounts. There are some mountains of pure sulfur formed near any sour oil refinery. Alberta alone produces nearly 1500 tons of high purity sulfur yearly. they can't even give it away so they end up shipping it to huge sulfur dumps.
Believing stones have magical power is not a normal thought that most people have nor had. Like snake oil salesman, if there were any consequence to such belief, they would not go out of business. But, they do. ALL OF THEM. Trendy does not equal value. Reminds me of the tulip craze only multiplied by thousands of different novelties.
So sad that these countries that produce so much of value are the poorest. Not just the natural resources being exploited but the people are too. The riches of their land are being stole from them.
As with amethysts dimonds were also found to be just as abundant but de beers and celcel rhodes let the world believe they are rare so we believe they are rare we can lab make dimonds so perfect the have to be lazer eched to dealers can tell they are lab grown
I feel horrible for the sulfur miners. Even seeing the one guy stand in the acid lake was insane... They need better working gear 😢 edit: what is the point of social distancing on a volcano? Lol They're literally inhaling sulfur fumes, I don't think covid could be worse than that.
A 10 year old child from NA would easily automate the sulphur mines in Indonesia and develop easier ways of transporting it while using gloves. What's wrong with these people? More sulphur means more money which means more PPE etc.
@user-iy1vo2jf2qThose pipes is instaled by the Company. And all those worker including Mistar himself are all Freelancer and not Employe. So they have to fund their own gear, its already mention by the narrator.
Not sure if this comp will mention it but shout out all the cobalt miners in Africa, those nine year Olds mined, so I could type this.
Cobalt miners are the backbone of modern battery. I salute them
AMEN! AS A MATTER OF FACT THE WARS WHICH ARE GOING ON WHICH THE UNITED STATES BLAMES ON OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE IT HAS TO IT CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW DISGUSTING IT IS AND EVEN WHEN IT COMES OUT 20 TO 50 YEARS LATER THE UNITED STATES NEVER APOLOGIZES OR MAKES A MAN'S OR HOLDS ITS OWN ACCOUNTABLE FOR WAR CRIMES WHICH ARE FAR WORSE THAN HITLER OR STALIN COMMITTED. THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT FOR AMERICA SO WE CAN DRIVE A HUNDRED MILES ONE WAY ON A TANK OF CHEAP GAS TO BUY HALF A BAG OF S*** WE DON'T NEED NO MATTER WHOSE KID DIES NO MATTER WHO CATCHES CANCER NO MATTER WHAT PALESTINIANS ARE DRIVEN OUT OF THEIR HOMELAND FURTHER BY THE ISRAELIS SO THE ISRAELIS CAN STEAL THEIR OFFSHORE OIL WHICH WAS DISCOVERED 20 YEARS AGO AS IF STEALING THEIR HOMELAND WASN'T ENOUGH...
JOOSKUM AND AMERICUNTS BROUGHT A KNIFE INTO THE RING AND WON THE FIGHT AND THEN CONTROLLED HISTORY AFTERWARD BY DOMINATING AND INTIMIDATING THE JUDGES...
Say it louder. Much louder. As matter of fact don't bother saying at all. Its unlikely than an African cobalt miner speaks english or has youtube. But you sleep soundly knowing that you saved the world with your keyboard. Lets go Brandon.
@@JamesTrewolla ya lets just ignore the problem because its in another country in another language!
bravo james!
i dont think they care about you praising them for it.
i think they just want better lives like everyone.
I want to see more of Mistar on his job in the sulfur mine, he’s so humble and it seems like he loves telling his story.
I love seeing how other countries workers’ stories on how they make a living, since I know I haven’t had the same struggle.
It's horrendous what people have to go through so psychopaths can have another Yacht...I hope that universe is taking note....
@@nicolasalexander408 Right? At least provide them mask at bare minimum!
Amazing documentary !! Loved it
Awee, the last stuff the lady said was very inspirational. You can tell she put her whole soul into this stuff and if something means that much to someone you know that the value of the product is true. :) Amazing woman.
hate to see that sulfur and coal mining ... government and mining company should do something to lighten the miners load like rails to carry their products, transportation and gears... greedy people taking advantage of the miners //SMH
i agree..the government or mining company can more than double profits if they make it easier for the miners, in reality them not making it easier for them is just hurting their own bottom dollar in the end
I say you put your OWN MONEY up and start your OWN MINING company and do all the things you say others should do and see how much money you have left.... ppl with NO MONEY - bark orders around as if money does not exist.
public schooled? - prove me wrong
@@qilip7141 How does the boot taste?
life outside of the western world and some developed non wester nations. people forget the paradise we have built. Ours is not the 'normal state of things', theirs is.
I can't imagine the face a new opal miner gets whenever he's told by someone who's got 40-years of experience, "You've got just as much a chance at me dawg, good luck g 👍"
Huge knowledgeable documentary. God provide materials to all living being.
If any worker in the world deserves a Go Fund Me. the sulfur miners do! If I could do it myself, I would in a heart beat but I am disabled. Bless them!🔥🔥
@user-iy1vo2jf2q That's a lot of assumptions without proof from your mouth, chill he's not robbing your riches, keep it in your pocket he's just telling his story and somehow you are the one that gets an attitude.
@user-iy1vo2jf2q no, no they can't afford it
It takes LITERALLY the same effort to create a gofundme as that ludicrous self serving comment that you posted. Unless of course if your disability prevents you from doing almost nothing.
Agreed!!! Proper and safe work attire and equipment
I wanna know who installed those pipes in the volcano.
they aint around anymore
...because THAT is the real issue here! Hope they had permits! lol
I had NO IDEA about the Curling stones! I watch that every time they come on
Interesting video
Terrific documentary!
I'd love to see a mined from another planet video next.
Very informative and interesting. Thank you for posting.
I also said that😄
In Vancouver Canada people actually believe if it costs more it must be better. Because of this simple mindedness people have been taking full advantage by simply charging more for the same product which draws a wealthier customer base. Starbucks and marijuana dispensaries are examples of this. Tim Hortons sales went up after raising the prices and offering stronger tasting coffees.
So you're saying Canadians are stupid? Newsflash, we already knew.
That is applicable to almost all first world countries
I got the rock bug in 2008-2009, starting going down the Appalacians digging for quartz, then looking for smoky quartz and amethyst, then garnets, then pyrite cubes, then emerald/beryl (which the locals call "burl"), then aquamarine (also "burl"), then corundum (ruby/sapphire which the locals call "saffarr") and you just get SUCKED RIGHT IN.
Before you know it, you'll be digging up stuff you never even knew to exist before you got into the rockhound hobby. "Oooh, kyanite!" "Wow! Blue fluorite!" "Oooh Elbaite!"
Now (15 years later) I still love hunting quartz, beryl, corundum, and anything shiney and pretty, but I'm also on a little bit of a "gold" kick now. Looking for prospecting sites now and when the weather breaks, Ill be out in those ancient mountains looking for treasure. For me, crystals arent "healing" or any new-age bullsh... They're just beautiful miracles created by our Earth, and being the FIRST and ONLY person to ever see their immense beauty as you unearth them for the first time, helping them receive their first photons of sunlight in a hundred million years to reveal a geological miracle.... well, that's just a special experience I cant put into words. Spiritual almost...
Go dig! But beware, its hard work! (not that any rockhound minds doing it)
I heard a mineral dealer once say "If you're entranced by the natural beauty of stone, how is not therapeutic?"
@@AndrewJ951 "Therapeutic" ??? Absolutely... That's a very wise mineral dealer.
However, "Imbued with magical abilities based on "vibrations"???" Naaah, horsefeathers. I don't buy that new-agey horsecrap "Oh this peridot and adventurine will purify your throat chakra!"
I'm in WV, I'd def be interested in starting this hobby myself.
Whats your advice?
@@sethstatler8480 First, read some local rockhound websites (North Carolina and Virgnia have very active geology club scenes... sounds dorky, but they do) so you know WHERE to start looking, then just get out on the weekends, trek into the woods (where its legal to dig) and start looking for cool rocks. In much of central Virgina and western and central North Carolina, you can dig down to the clay layer and start pulling out quartz crystals if you're in a "hot" area. The fancy stuff (aquamarine, sapphire, garnet etc...) is usually in the mountains... but you can find pyrite and calcite and whatnot in highway road cuts. I mean... its just reading online to learn where things are and then going to find them!
@@sethstatler8480 1. get yourself a rock and mineral guide or encyclopedia, know that there's difference between a mineral, and a rock, ex. Serpentine is a rock, Serpentinite is the mineral Serpentine is almost exclusively composed of, don't concern yourself with memorizing the chemical name of a mineral, can be handy tho when prospecting knowing what elements or chemical make up of region, so here its Silicon Dioxide aka the chemical name for Quartz mineral, or the crystal that composes most of the aka Granite rock, but then there's also crystal names - quartz crystal, and gemstone names - alexandrite, and don't get me started on pseudomorphs - carnelian, Agate, Rose quartz....im digressing
really main thing know what it is thats grabbing you, is the prospecting thats fun, is it the lure of value? is it simply there beauty and looks?
For me liking all 3 the ladder the most followed by next former so forth, since its the beauty i like i spend most my time tumbling rock in rock tumblers, currently in process of making home version so can process like 30 pounds at one time but to be able to turn the most dirty looking average rock off the ground an turn it to the most mesmerizing specimen is mind boggling, cuz of that i don't have to prospect much , i still do somewhat but thats for the value lure to find a crystal with as little inclusions as possible, get it faceted (if i could afford the facete machine ws id do it myself, and get some decent dough out of it is quite appealing especially considering its just a hobby, but one that pays you back few 1,000 every so often
19:05 this is crazy.. The man is wearing a "Baťa" t-shirt, which is a shoe maker company, very old one, from near my home town in the Czech Republic.
I had no idea Bata was Czech till I saw this comment 😱
They're still massive in India, and I always thought it was a South Asian brand.
@@flipotssss yeah, it’s pretty fascinating that he is Still Well know in the world
Well, when we the "1st world inhabitants" drop our old out-of-style clothes in the "donate your lightly used garments" boxes, I imagine these impoverished nations is where they all go. Doesn't surprise me. If they can use my old Affliction T-shirts from 2014, good for them!
I TRULY appreciate your straight forward Analysis 🎉🎉😂😂
Very informative video. Thanks for shearing.
...and sharing?
I really hope these people get paid for their time during the interview.
Most of the time they do
I used to work as a sound technician for a media company a couple of years back, you always gotta pay up or bring something if they gonna sit in front of a camera or follow them around during work hours because they can't afford to lose focus or time. It can get really tricky if the words spreads around, that's why you usually have some "security" with you who can easily communicate or whatever. Remember one guide/security guy we had in India near the border who told us to get the interviewee goats or chickens instead of money because they lasted longer.
@@randylahey1822 That last sentence sounds like an idiom rather than advice lmao
Exactly....BI doesn't even provide info to help fund education for these people (through donations etc). They should...
Thanks you I like.
I know many people believe those items are the most expensive, but just like many other things will it protect you will it nourish you like water 💧
Water is the most useful thing for you
Maslow's hierarchy of needs. At the base is food, water, shelter. Once you have those, then humans set their sights on other things, like entertainment. But they'll always go back to basic needs.
The sulphur miners are breathing in the toxic gas all day everyday but they are worried about social distancing? Really you've got bigger things to worry about
You don't know how LETHAL Covid is then. The toxic gas is chipping your life away bits by bits. But Covid is a lethal virus, one day you're healthy but in 1-2 days you will get huge fever, can't taste anything, huge headache and Insomnia. And its easily spreading. Those miners have a family too you know.
@@gregrenox9644Sulfur is very toxic
Rice with a side of fern leaves sounds yummy 🤤🤤🤤
ikr? thank god WE are privileged! Actually, pretty sure they're happy to have that. Better than nothing, right?
To those miners in Indonesia, mining Sulfur, you are incredible, for $17.00 a day. I honestly salute you, that's not enough for the dangers you subject yourself to. If I could do more I would.
You can do more. Quit helping corporations profit on the exploitation of the LIMITED resources on this planet. If we rape this planet to extinction then we all pay that price. Name ONE corporation that cares about you. Those miners do that job because it's the best paying job in that region. How much is the Corporation making on their misery? Are there death benefits paid to the family when those workers die prematurely?
You can do more. Quit feeling bad, be a voice.
omg wow beautyfull
Rich people spend the money poor people die for
Ya it’s called economics & global trade & the reason those ‘poor’ aren’t even poorer
@@Max_m snarky lil shit ain't ya
@@Max_m you really believe this bs arent you
@@schnitzelhannes6431 what bs? the poorest person today is in fact several magnitudes richer than the poorest person 150 years ago. Globalization & expansion of trade as is reasonable for the best living conditions ever experienced for ever single human
@@Max_m If you mean people who once had their own land, grew their own food now earn 1c/hr in slave labor are "richer" then yes you are right
For sulfur why they dont make lift or elevator or teleferik system?
39:12 I don’t believe that a lot of opal people normally find sells for $1k or more a karot or everyone and their mothers would be polishing rocks in Australia, I think it’s a very small sample size of opal that sells for that price. I feel the opal market is exaggerated a little bit with the TV shows and all that, and also because opal has to be made into a certain kind of jewelry, it’s not a traditional stone that would be set in a ring or necklace like a diamond or a sapphire, so that limits the market even more. I’m not saying opal isn’t beautiful and isn’t expensive I just think there is a small portion of opal that’s top notch and that has been exaggerated a little bit over the years for the sake of TV.
The Sulphur is derived from a natural variation of the Claus Process. The oxidation-reduction production of native Sulphur. The original gas is hydrogen sulphide, which is more deadly than cyanide gas. This is partially burnt to Sulphur dioxide, and this is then reacted with unburnt hydrogen sulphide, they form the auto oxidation production of Sulphur. There are volcanoes where S is produced from volcanoes in Chile, with some of the elevations exceed 17,000 to 18,000 feet. They are now closed, but were operated for almost a hundred years to provide sulphuric acid for the nitrate and copper industries. These guys would knock off and play soccer in the evening at an elevation most people would faint at! The men in Indonesia are still working in between 10,000 and 11,000 feet. You should try climbing the trail next to them!
Over the course of history, humans have proven time and again their adaptability to their environs. Let us all hope that adaptability carries humanity well into the future. Unless the idiots bring ruin upon us all.
The narrator during the Tin Floating Mines segment is excruciating.
Literally just had this thought had the video playing and came back to switch it lol. I dont know why they are whispering
@@69Emoji Voice overs in a hotel under the blanket in the bathroom. Producer probably sleeping....
They must have braces based on the annunciation. It's incredibly rough.
i had to skip it. so grating
Very sloppy production, probably spent a bunch of money on the whole thing as well. Have no idea what they were up to. Its so bad I also skipped it.
Be adviced: Some pink salts can, to my knowledge, potentially be higher in contaminants such as heavy metals…
some ppl's advices suck because it's really not advice. parrot copying another parrot and thinking they cured cancer is the product of public schooling.
Very good!
Tarea resuelta
sabes traducir en ingles o que te mandaron a hacer
I'm tired of clicking on a "new" video, just to realize it's a bunch of old content thrown together with a new title. 😂😂
You are not alone
I assume every video of theirs is a repeat that hopefully I haven’t seen all of yet 😂
Some of those pipes are too beautiful to use; they belong on display as works of art.
That guy has no safety glasses on while grinding!!! That's a write up at my job!!! Lol
Those Scott’s really have the stones !
Id love to go digging but not in a tunnel or under ground i couldnt do that 😢
What major company do they sell the sulfur too
same question i was asking. $17 a day is crazy when im sure the company is making billions.
These documentaries only scratch the surface of the shady business and corruption that goes all they way to the political top and foreign buyers controlling the market. That's where the real interesting stories lay, to bad the media bosses want none of that,. The only thing they want is crude sob stories so they can sell it and get a high viewer count nothing else. Also the production were absolute terrible, whispering narrator trying to overcompensate for som bs. Not a fan of these type of documentaries at all. Its weak and people see right thru it except middle aged mothers watching this on TV sobbing their eyes out for the poor workers not being able to grasp the bigger picture of how messed up all of this is ..
it's likely not one company. Sulfur is a commodity, probably on the global exchange. Available to any company that wants to purchase it. Like tire manufacturers. Enjoy that drive to the store, cheap labor made it possible.
Really like how many people buy those stones? To make a factory?😮
53:42 ,"She inhales toxic smoke"
Has she tried NOT squatting by the fire on the windside?
It looks like miners in Indonesia would use a pulley system on a rail of types or an overhead pully by manpower or an engine.
They would do 5 x as much maybe ever 10 times as much.
So, any system that increased the output would pay for itself quickly, i believe.
And double or triple the money for the owner and laborers.
Just thinking 🤔
Female narrators are enthusiastic about workers' plights!!!
Yeah I got this too!
Although I don’t think pink salt is any healthier, it for sure tastes a lot better. That’s why I use it.
Meerschaum ist german- translated seafoam means seaspray , beautiful words both 🥰
God bless Indonesian and it people.
that island is my view everyday from my house in the first video
Alexandrite is one of the most beautiful gemstones know to humankind
The Opal time stamp is wrong. It stars at 34:18.
I was sure your profile picture was titties... Fake titties but titties no doubt. Right. WRONG!! 😂😂😂 NICE One but I also have a filthy mind😊
Wait, these guys are inhaling toxic sulphur and die from it at 50 but they’re required to socially distance for covid.. in 2024?
Imagine mining the whole island just to sliding competition 😂😂😂
Rocks don't have healing power until they look cool as heck/
9:37 I heard they have to buy their own gas masks! They should be getting hazard pay.
Social Distancing in a volcanic sulfur mine is CRAZY
well nice message for the travelers ! pick extra masks with you and some fresh water !
22:31 "Josh and his family drove the crystal *half-way* across the country"
Making Olympic grade stones using a Ryobi lmfao
oh. What tool did you use?
21:30 mins how can i find this guy i would like to donate to him !!!!!!!!!! please help me find this person
12:32 The world has no problem with this! Would it be different if they said the same in a USA workplace? 🤔
$17 a day?? My daughter is 17 years old making $17 an hour making subs. That's insane.
40:43 Indonasian Tin narration was pretty bad. ASMR in documentary is a big no for me.
Look at the steep and rocky cliffs, there is a threat of landslides hitting the acid lake and causing an acid tsunami.
You can travel by ship from Duluth MN to the Atlantic Ocean. So the Great Lakes are freshwater seas?
Imagine you're the only supplier for the olympic.
Socially distance? In a sulfure mine? That's the most absurd thing I've heard yet
I think it's just because of the country's policy that requires companies to implement social distancing for their workers. If they don't, the place will probably be forced to close.
Tin floating is absolutely insane there using a gas motor to supply the air for HOURS and to communicate they pinch the tube...!?!? bro what the actual F*** they have it all setup to be hit or miss like how where did the crew for this rig come from?? How do they have dozens of these bunk boats?? I have so many questions-
Your video is very good, keep it up
I subscribed for the massive plagiarizer Neri Oxman, Business Insider did an incredible job bringing light to the situation. Finally a source I can trust
Narrator: "diving for tin is so risky! He is so brave!"
Cameraman who dives right behind him, but doesn't get a word of mention: am I a joke to you?
At least THIS time they included some I actually haven’t seen yet, fewer old posts.
I am here with my big flue on the sofa instead of at work , let YT drizzling on me, thinking…. Ha….wouldn’t have known this otherwise…..
I've put pink salt in my pasta water and it seems like the minerals never dissolve even when the salt soes
Why cant they have a truck to toat that sulfer.?? That roads big enough. 😮
Its devastating to see the mining man
Is it me or is the lady from the tin mining related to daffy duck?
Send the president of IKEA a pendent!😅
How many types stones have in the world
Sedimentary, Igneous, Volcanic and Conglomerate...oh, and extraterrestrial! (Geologists chime in if I missed any, please)
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Is the Amethyst polisher still alive?
How are olympic curling stones made, and why are they so expensive, and why is that weird ass sport in the olypics in the first place?
I am amazed that Indonesia can market their volcanic sulfur when the oil industry can't market their sulfur in some parts of the world despite it's high purity in industrial amounts. There are some mountains of pure sulfur formed near any sour oil refinery. Alberta alone produces nearly 1500 tons of high purity sulfur yearly. they can't even give it away so they end up shipping it to huge sulfur dumps.
sounds like they may need to consult some Indonesian sales reps. Probably found in the alley, no storefront.
Believing stones have magical power is not a normal thought that most people have nor had. Like snake oil salesman, if there were any consequence to such belief, they would not go out of business. But, they do. ALL OF THEM. Trendy does not equal value. Reminds me of the tulip craze only multiplied by thousands of different novelties.
So sad that these countries that produce so much of value are the poorest. Not just the natural resources being exploited but the people are too. The riches of their land are being stole from them.
If spam suddenly cost $1,000 a can Pairs Hilton would be eating it.
I eat a very lot of salt, and i can taste a difference in pint salt and table salt, but that's me
Mining coal in sandals is dumb. She could find a solution to that but chooses not to. Make Something!
As with amethysts dimonds were also found to be just as abundant but de beers and celcel rhodes let the world believe they are rare so we believe they are rare we can lab make dimonds so perfect the have to be lazer eched to dealers can tell they are lab grown
I feel horrible for the sulfur miners. Even seeing the one guy stand in the acid lake was insane... They need better working gear 😢 edit: what is the point of social distancing on a volcano? Lol They're literally inhaling sulfur fumes, I don't think covid could be worse than that.
A 10 year old child from NA would easily automate the sulphur mines in Indonesia and develop easier ways of transporting it while using gloves. What's wrong with these people? More sulphur means more money which means more PPE etc.
Frozen Shuffle boar 😊
why is it so expensive , because rich people spend their money on stupid things.
Interesting.
But this made me feel thankful for the life I've got back home.
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Mining sulfur, very dangerous and lasting health effects but social distance because of covid lol.
shout out all the cobalt miners in Africa, those nine year olds mined,
I wonder how did they get the pipes there and installed them at the volcano?
@user-iy1vo2jf2qThose pipes is instaled by the Company. And all those worker including Mistar himself are all Freelancer and not Employe. So they have to fund their own gear, its already mention by the narrator.
1:19:47 You mean a massive tax write off is what you got out of it for "donating" it to the museum.
And you wonder how the Egyptians cut and shaped stone 4500 years ago with no machinery
At least no machinery that survived for 4500 years !
The future looks certainly bright er. Hahaha
Wow this guy's on sulfur really suffer they probably tired all day every day man