Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush
Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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As Warren Buffet would say...during a gold rush, be the one selling picks and shovels
4:00 it is not worth 50 cent
Betcha the cost of that guys suit would feed a lot of his people
@zhang_han
2 жыл бұрын
bet you it wouldn't. Clothing is artifically expensive in North America, but not in Cote d'Ivore
Sad...they have so much resources but are poorest in the world
@TalalElnadi
6 жыл бұрын
David D o
@gamo5342
6 жыл бұрын
Ur wrong Ivory is in the top 5 most richest countries in africa
@elvisarmoneking9255
6 жыл бұрын
David D the sad reality of most African countries
@nickpop4649
6 жыл бұрын
The West is not innocent in the poor state of the so-called 3rd world. Just saying.
@amirabed5652
6 жыл бұрын
I grew up there, the thing is bigger countries will hear about this and bring the tech to get this going using labor from the poor people then they’ll pay them a little which in their eyes is a lot. I’ve seen a lot of businesses there that are family owned and making millions but the workers barely get anything
Such a beautiful, civilized nation
@houseplant1016
2 жыл бұрын
The so called civilized nations are doing this because of their greed. You can easily stop buying gold.
This really opened up how I think about countries like this in Africa. They're basically a century behind the developed world, but they are catching up as the realize the value of there natural resources. However I think that as they grow and experience many of the same things that countries that have already industrialized did, they will know what not to do. It's a culture of extremely hardworking people, Ithink they will prosper much sooner than most expect.
@billshun3963
Жыл бұрын
They all needed a stabilized government to begin with the rest will fallow.
@eminiola7131
Жыл бұрын
We need to learn how to industrialize our products
@benlewis5312
Жыл бұрын
Natural resources (outside of petrol) no longer contribute significantly to national wealth. Africa will never be able to rely on its natural resources to make itself rich. Security, education, free trade, and transition into a service-based economy will make them rich. Resource-poor nations like Japan and Switzerland have no problem succeeding in a global economy because human ingenuity is magnitudes more valuable than natural resources
you can't abandon your agriculture or you will always have to rely on other provinces to get your food. you can still dig for gold but when you let your people suffer, especially if you don't use the profits for your community. gold mines dry up over time.
@mahmoudkolmahmadi5841
7 жыл бұрын
Erin May کمچجح
How much is a gram of Gold in Cote d'ivoire?
Na Mr.Tape is just pissed cuz he cant stick his fingers in it to make more than the little guy...
what a promising development
Thanks
As always in Africa it's the bureaucrats slowing down social and economic progress. Probably trying to figure out a way they can directly siphon of profits to their foreign bank accounts.
@mahmoudkolmahmadi5841
7 жыл бұрын
KILER SHAKA ZULU
if they use the profits to build hospitals and roads ect , how will the people afford to pay for the hospital. Better yet , how will they eat ??? .Thats the problem, they have no substantial means of income to support themselves and their families!!!!!
6 жыл бұрын
justus 28 why should they pay for the services of an hospital built by the benefits of their hardwork!?
@defcon2544
6 жыл бұрын
So you're saying they will build a socialist utopia, all work and contribute and all is free. Get real, that will never happen. justus 28 is absolutely right, there is no economy, even with schools and hospitals.
@angelicadickson8666
3 жыл бұрын
Do you expect the people that work at the hospital to work for free?
It is almost 2019. That's what their society accomplished for past few thousand years.
@splitsecond190
4 жыл бұрын
They will not destroy this planet with nucleat bomb.
@missbstuurman
3 жыл бұрын
Still better than Bombing the entire middle east
@dawudhasan5960
2 жыл бұрын
dumbest comment
@billshun3963
Жыл бұрын
@@splitsecond190 wait till one day they can make their own ( unclear ) bomb.
@freemarley639
10 ай бұрын
You should read more...
수고하셨습니다 감사합니다 고맙습니다 고생했어요
How does this narrator manage to sound like a political robot?
@marktime9235
3 жыл бұрын
@@labadaba5088 The intonation of the narrator is boring and 'robot like'.
I am in love with the coaco
Nice video hard working people 💪💪
I love my country.
I’m watching this because it’s my online class assignment
New subscriber 👍
Funny part is Cacao will become VERY valuable in some decades.
Africa needs to wake up!
@bigboijoni4328
4 жыл бұрын
Cicada sure well just suddenly become rich and have more water access and less courupt leaders
@abednegokipkirui7761
9 ай бұрын
Repatriation is top down, economy is the other way
government should set up a proper mining operation in that region and aid the workers with modern machinery so they wont have to pollute the soil with mercury .... They are damaging the environment for the future - they should not punish the villagers for trying to make money by shutting the operation down , they should have been smart enough from the beginning to see and opportunity to make a change and invest in that regions mining industry .
@user-go7xl6tf1l
2 жыл бұрын
صباح الخير
@JohnMwangi-jv3pp
Жыл бұрын
That's too much asking 4 an African government they want th easy way over taxing its pple
wow look at the dirt! mercury in the ground water! help!
@defcon2544
6 жыл бұрын
It's the African way of mining, they don't seem to care.
@HMDickson
5 жыл бұрын
Are you OK? Mercury is very expensive and these folks watch every drop!!! They are not slinging it around like holy water! That is left wing bias that infers they are spilling mercury everywhere!!! You have mercury all over your house sunshine. You careful with it? Got a curly-cue light bulb? That is mercury vapor!!! Got a themometer, you got mercury :) Got central heat and air? You got mercury switches!!! Got a car that a light comes on when you raise the trunk or hood? You got more mercury switches! 99% of mercury contamination comes from electrical power plants and the manufacture of chlorine. That is a fact!!! You ready to give up electricity? Your old lady ready to give up Chlorox? You are far more of a mercury polluter than these people!!!
Even though this is hard work... They are not being forced to do so. At least these are NOT blood diamonds. Ivory Coast -> Home of Didier Drogba and gold apparently.
Good Luck
Era gold mine kare bole kichu bike gari kineche,kintu eakhane KC Ra dibbi Bina paisa gari kitchen,excellent,I am from One KB KC country.
it saddens me everytime i see the people of an african nation speaking french. their own language is gone.
@JHJH007
8 жыл бұрын
+Austin Hughes So I presume you speak Welsh or Irish? Since 'Hughes' comes from a Welsh or Irish origin
@austinhughes2161
8 жыл бұрын
+JHJH007 im an immigrant. we moved here by choice. there's a difference. also, welsh and irish is still spoken in their respective countries. these african nations have lost their languages by colonization.
@austinhughes2161
8 жыл бұрын
***** that's because you see africa as a whole. individual colonized nations, not so.
@princekelvin6476
8 жыл бұрын
+Austin Hughes know your fact in Ivory coast everybody speak there own language French is just the common language and the offical language of the country im french and my friend is from ivory coast the country got at least 60 different different ethnicity ( mostly Dioula,Baoulé,Bété) do your research before assuming stuf like that smh if it was not for french there no way they could communicate with each other because they are not from the same ethnicity
@austinhughes2161
8 жыл бұрын
prince kelvin they could easily have use 1 of their languages as their national language. french has no place there. all other languages will disappear in time. just look at singapore. dialects have disappeared and mandarin is disappearing too. so please do YOUR research 1st instead riding your ignorant high horse.
Department of Rehabilatation and Corrections
No shame in wearing TWO WATCHES while your people suffers
@checkcheck1579
4 жыл бұрын
one is for local time the other, for overseas time when ,they are playing the "nigerian prince" part.
@vasiavisilievic1873
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe those watches cost 5 bux apiece. you never know
"Wai a u unnin, wai a u unnin"
Greasy! 👍👍👍👍👍
My country has gold 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
Anyway to help them prosper
@mdsiddikurrohman4602
3 жыл бұрын
Suzon meddia
Looks like a cool way to live, camping and digging for treasure
@erdemir5641
4 жыл бұрын
hahahahaha
They took gold back to Europe and said we need some more..it'll make us look strong black😂😂
Most of the miners are actually not Ivoirian but from neighbor country like Burkina, Mali... They came to do such dangerous work, get some money and send some money back to their home country.
I read about that the classical mining companies had the obligation to build roads, schools and hospitals for the host countries in addition to the wages, and operation costs. Now the scenario changed into this; labors are suffering and indemnities are lacking.
Great
How can I believe that man saying :"I want schools built here"?????
Given that the people doing the mining are members of the local community, I would imagine that a lot of the money being made was being invested into the community.
@mohammedfasihuddin1047
6 жыл бұрын
Adam Thornton UK
4:00 where's the gold?
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I from ivory coast and I speak French
@TravelwithSurya579
4 жыл бұрын
Do you know english
@iamltz9007
3 жыл бұрын
Hello, let's chat more about this. My WhatsApp no: +254757087214
What do you do.
mother Africa beautiful people and rich land
Cool
i have noticed on my world travles that the rest of the world does not have decent hand tools from a construction industrial worker perspective
Those bags do not contain golg as the density of gold in the given volume is round about 19300 kg. How can a small child carry that much of weight?
@muktarliman5399
5 жыл бұрын
that cocoa
Ivory coast will never ever supercede Ghana nor SAfrica in gold production, its a dream and it will stay like that.
3:42 xD
Di luar juga pake mercury ya..
that ringing is killing me
Hallo is there a gold seller
wow
Why would they stop farming which is constant money if you do it right, than hopelessly look for so little gold?
It's sad to see that they are sourcer but they can't live..... 😔
Is that how you end up with a hunchback
Costei do vidio .
“Chocolate did you say chocolate” “ um... yes” “CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE”. Ha it’s a sponge bob referrent
they are exploiting these people. its sad
Like ususal they want to keep all the money
Such a civilized nation like Eurapions or USA can't see poor people growing.
@phoonbazinga4851
5 жыл бұрын
Europe isn't a nation
@bikosteve8864
5 жыл бұрын
Work on your English you Muslim dick!
@olie171
5 жыл бұрын
It's better for them not to interfere. They've done more harm than good on that part of the world.
@banch286
5 жыл бұрын
Steve Young, poor ignorant u are
I have seen Daren Sammy at 1.45 from side..🤗
60 degress melts skin off fingers?
One day,one day,one day.......
@tot2600hrs
5 жыл бұрын
joe collins Keep waiting. Its only been 2000 years...
Very tough life
That is easy too .
4:24 he i smad cause he doesnt get hes cut, if the gold was going towards the village, he would/can fill hes pockets!.. he still probably does!...for sure!
I'm sure Americans will take that place
Africa has the opportunity to exploit its potential by making sound investment decisions. The gold rush in the Ivory Coast is one such example. The country is so rich in mineral wealth that one only has to dig a few meters to encounter gold. African governments run by socialist dictators are holding Africa back. Open the markets, open Africa for investment now!
"You can find a rock worth 2m and buy your motorcycle, open a small business, buy nice clothes but you won't get anything from working in a cocoa farm for 4 years" this seriously dosent really make sense
@lailauzivert
8 жыл бұрын
Because if u know how easy it is to start a life or do something big in Ivory Coast you'd understand
@nilshuvo4034
7 жыл бұрын
Javav Sea
@bearsjawad
7 жыл бұрын
he meant its about luck. you can find a big rock one day with a lot of gold and get rich. or even work for years and not find shit. u dig?
@michaelweston7748
7 жыл бұрын
Muddy with a chance of Millionaire!!!
@julesgouton945
7 жыл бұрын
He most probably meant 2 million CFA which is a currency that is extremely inflated and has low value compared to USD or Euro.
They should smoke cigars, not cigarettes!
Give them all school and hospital electricity
And who is actually getting rich, from all their hard graft?
@bigboijoni4328
4 жыл бұрын
Clearly the economy
If they can't tax the miners how are the politicians going to get rich?
If people abandon agriculture the Price of food will be high.
I still dont know how the govt work
You monetize this? How ironic
I don’t know what to say... is sick
You can't even grow a garden! Without that first step how do you expect to have a scociety? Gold mining?
@nigelwilliams5653
5 жыл бұрын
"You can't even grow a garden"? Without what first, or, you must! you and the hold must learn to grow and have a proper Garden, in order to have a Society, a humane, society!!
Hey brotha Do you know the way
Caption will kill you at 02:01 min.
Holly Molly
Europeans have plundered Africa for years.only in 1960 ivory coast got independence from France. Reason for French being official language
Germinal 2.0
Everybody wearing gold and watching this is outwardly feeling guilt...but deep inside they don't reallly care....
Bluefilm
no that piece of gold is not worth 10$.
That piece of gold was worth 50 cents lol
@JunaidKhan-lg4gj
5 жыл бұрын
keep in mind, 1 gm gold is equivalent to 50 USD.
@ndorobei4391
2 жыл бұрын
@@JunaidKhan-lg4gj more
where r their safety?
@williamsueper8602
4 жыл бұрын
Franklin Clinton where is your grammar?
They supply the world with chocolate and gold but dont have electricity...
Africa continent has been sold, to chinese government, they explore major natural countries resources, like gold and diamond mines in Mozambique, Angola, Congo, Tanzânia etc...
@natturner8641
6 жыл бұрын
that is not true
@discountpotato5680
5 жыл бұрын
nat turner yes that is true
that little tiny piece only 10 dollars well they deserve it though
that guy's French is very well.
@adamadiallo3759
7 жыл бұрын
Kadek Ananta the official language in Ivory Coast is French... obviously he would speak it fluently
I wonder when will it all end do to civil war
That is how we now understand how we are so ungrateful we are all blessed and live in 1st word and they live in a third world country and are more grateful than us😔😔
That little one cost 10 dollar but well if you change 10 dollar in ivory cost it like 100 for them
Marriam/Elizveth