Where Is The World's Largest Gold Reserve? | Super Structures | Progress
At 14,000 feet, in the remote jungles of New Guinea is the largest gold and copper deposit in the world. Getting to that deposit and building a profitable mine was one of the biggest engineering challenges ever.
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having lived in indonesia for two decades this story makes me weep. the reason western countries go there to mine and drill is the total lack of oversight and legislation to protect the environment. they will very quickly not only level the mountain but the effluvia will wash into the sea and destroy fisheries, corals, etc. all legal. s
@princethawani1351
9 күн бұрын
What is more precious fish and gold
Love the fact massive companies quoted multi millions to build a road Local guy : give me a bulldozer mechanic fuel crate of beer n 20 Malborough 😂😂😂
Papua Niu Guini. Because of the abundance of minerals, Indonesia will not let go of Irian Jaya. Coffee is also called kina gold in Papua Niu Guini.
Nevada, USA, has a hell of a lot of gold as well.
I would loved to be the Prospecting Geologist on this project! Even tho I was 2! Lol I would loved spending the night in the Forest! The memories they made are absolutely amazing and what life is all about! God created a huge playground for all his children to play in. Some get caught up in the 9-5 lifestyle while others are Blessed with exploring this Great & Awesome playground!🙏
Grid and absolute madness thrives those destructive people
The minerals recovered will never cover the negative environmental and social impacts.
@neilreid9005
21 күн бұрын
Evidence please?
@princethawani1351
9 күн бұрын
Bullshit
A very few Great Men - the Pioneers, the Voyagers & Explorers - did the initial Very Hard Work, and the followers enjoy the Benefits! Great story to tell the younger generation! Bravo!!!
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Jean Dozy died ashamed of the on-going ethic cleansing of West Papua and international looting that his 1936 survey lead to.
The largest gold and copper project is in BC, Canada. The KSM project of Seabridge Gold is currently under development with all permits in hand. The company has just applied for the Substantially Started Status. Resources M&I plus INF = 154 Moz. of gold. DYOR
Great story, great history, great discovery. Well done.
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
The mine is NOT in Indonesia that is in Asian, Papua is the northern section of the Australian continent some 3500km east of Java (Indonesia). West Papua is victim of illegal use of the UN Trusteeship system a.k.a. the "New York Agreement" to in-effect sell the indigenous Australian population and their homelands to their traditional enemy Indonesia/Java (Javanese have for past thousand years attempted to kidnap Papuans as a black slave commodity, but the Papuans kept beating them back. After creation of 'Indonesia' it demanded possession of West Papua, eastern Papua (now known as independent nation of PNG), northern Borneo, and East Timor.) Unfortunately the Dutch in 1935 had allowed Standard Oil buy a 60% holding in the exploration company that was tasked with exploring West Papua's mineral resources, a year later they discovered what they renamed as Ertsberg and Grasberg and in violation of the license concealed both the discovery and survey reports while John Rockefeller made plans how to get hold of the mountains without paying the Dutch or Papuans for converting their sacred mountains into a hole. Under the "New York Agreement" the US and UN appointed Indonesia as the "administrator" and in violation of the UN Charter for 61 years has turned its back while Indonesia and Freeport have been looting the colony. Sixty years of on-going mass murders, international looting, denial of media access, and on-going denial of rights.. West Papua is victim of the "New York Agreement" so WHY did Indonesia in 2005 forbid the US Senate passing that year's bill (sec.1115) asking questions about conditions inside West Papua and validity of the Indonesian claim of sovereignty over West Papua? The New York Agreement appointed Indonesia as the UN member to administrate and help West Papua towards independence, does the US not have a right and duty to ask about it?
I worked for the company who built the conveyors that brings the gold and copper out to transport.
@bobmitchell8012
4 ай бұрын
Haven’t they ever heard of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.......one of many rich Gold deposits in Australia, and the 2 Biggest Nuggets Ever found, in Victoria Australia.
@21gioni
4 ай бұрын
@@bobmitchell8012The mines in this video are the largest in the world. The top of the mountain is almost solid gold.
@Zubadubank-ne3hm
3 ай бұрын
I WANT TO BUILD A Gold Mining Company I know a secret site
@21gioni
3 ай бұрын
@@Zubadubank-ne3hm I have the engineers who can design your operations. They don’t come cheap, they are professional engineers who designed Aluminium Smelting Plant in Canada.
@geemail1978
3 ай бұрын
And what is your point? Is it just Bragging?
Richest country but poorest citizen 😢
@goodllookin1722
8 ай бұрын
Who fucking cares, 50 years ago plus
@leojanuszewski1019
3 ай бұрын
What did the citizenry do to develop the resource?
You picture says “Biggest Gold Mine” yet , your heading says Biggest Gold Reserve , so , which is it ?
GREAT WELL DONE EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE THANK YOU
This story and what was accomplished is amazing. I can relate to some of these accomplishments on a lesser scale as I single handedly built roads through mountainous areas which were considered impossible to drive any kind of equipment or vehicles through. The only thing to travel here were horses nearly 100 years prior. I sometimes wonder whether anyone will ever credit my name with the access roads I carved through the steep, rocky, treacherous and secluded wilderness areas in central Pennsylvania, USA. I usually worked with forestors to engineer road grades and drainage for forestry roads.
@CamiManuel
10 ай бұрын
You are amazing ❤
@edwardwalsh4454
10 ай бұрын
ROAD CLEARERS DO treeMENdous WORK.
@cattnipp
9 ай бұрын
are you an engineer?
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Except for on-going ethnic cleansing, mass murders, international looting, and rape of the indigenous Australian population who do not want the Freeport mine or Indonesian gunships and military occupation. The mine is NOT in Indonesia that is Asian, Papua is the northern section of the Australian continent some 3500km east of Java (Indonesia). West Papua is victim of illegal use of the UN Trusteeship system in what is infamously known as the "New York Agreement" to in-effect sell the indigenous Australian population and their homelands to their traditional enemy Indonesia/Java (Javanese have for past thousand years attempted to kidnap Papuans as a black slave commodity, but the Papuans kept beating them back. After creation of 'Indonesia' it demanded possession of West Papua, eastern Papua (now known as independent nation of PNG), northern Borneo, and East Timor.) Unfortunately the Dutch allowed Standard Oil buy a 60% holding in the exploration company that was tasked with exploring West Papua's mineral resources, a year later they discovered what they renamed as Ertsberg and Grasberg and in violation of the license concealed both the discovery and survey reports while John Rockefeller made plans how to get hold of the mountains without paying the Dutch or Papuans for converting their sacred mountains into a hole. Under the "New York Agreement" the US and UN appointed Indonesia as the "administrator" and in violation of the UN Charter for 61 years has turned its back while Indonesia and Freeport have been looting the colony. Sixty years of on-going mass murders, international looting, denial of media access, and on-going denial of rights.. West Papua is victim of the "New York Agreement" so WHY did Indonesia in 2005 forbid the US Senate passing that year's bill (sec.1115) asking questions about conditions inside West Papua and validity of the Indonesian claim of sovereignty over West Papua? The New York Agreement appointed Indonesia as the UN member to administrate and help West Papua towards independence, does the US not have a right and duty to ask about it?
@whereswaldo5740
9 ай бұрын
Thanx! I probably walked in one hunting. We had a camp in Potter County. Part of the Appalachian Trail passed very near there. Old French Joe. There were old railroad beds too. No tracks or ties. But there were fire roads. While driving for deer some places were so steep I had to hold onto the trees with one hand and a rifle in the other. Practically walking on one knee uphill and leg extended on the other.
You have forgotten one significant variable. The massive copper mine in Panama is competing with the canall for water
I love Jay Pennington!
Fascinating history of the gold mining in that area. I presume it still operates today.
@megroslmegr7504
8 ай бұрын
Its still operating but Indonesian Gov now own big chunk of Freeport share there
Fantastic doco
This is an engineering feat that hasn't been given close to enough press. There is a book about a crash in WW 2 in this area. The locals had barely ever seen a white person. Supposedly only one white person had ever been there before this crash. It was a near-stone age existence. It was a big operation to get them out. It was called A Crash into Shagri- La. Fantastic book.
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Across most of West Papua there had been stories since the 1860s of white people, but few could believe it until they saw them. Then unfortunately under the on-going occupation of the "New York Agreement" came the Indonesian military, they used US Mitchell bombers during the 1960s, these days its Apache and other helicopter gunships and this year Chinese drones designed to carry eight mortar bombs that can be dropped on the target (villagers).
@TheSilmarillian
9 ай бұрын
Yep its the beginning of what where called cargo cults mana from the sky
Odd, I didn’t see the giant settling ponds near the ocean. Usually these are toxic dumps which in this case are most likely dumping into the ocean in an under-regulated environment.
A jaw dropping story. Never heard this one before. Absolutely incredible what determined people can achieve.
Honestly, how could anyone chalk this up as progress? It's a shame the locals weren't hungry.
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
HUngry? Not ever during the 70,000 years of West Papuan farming and habitation of Papua, until Standard Oil found out about the Amungme's gold, and NOTHING was going to stop the Cold-war banker architect Robert Lovett and his Freeport mining company getting access to the Papuan lands the Dutch were trying to protect.. The video is propaganda to conceal the on-going ethnic cleansing & international looting (BP, Koreans, China and others have joined Freeport's looting), please Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide". Or search KZread for 'West Papua War' for efforts to get some public attention to what your companies and international friend Indonesia are doing in the Australian continental island of Papua.
@colonelfustercluck486
5 ай бұрын
why you want hungry locals?
@johnj4860
5 ай бұрын
If they'd been eating the miners the weapons technology mismatch would have been demonstrated
Its like mining the top of everest ❤
Staggeringly complex and dangerous. Amazing.
Suez canal comes to mind..
Briliant!
Amazing
51:01 K2 mountain climb.
@raheemabdul1066
9 ай бұрын
also Denali
I was there during my carrier with Goodyear...at this altitude I felt very poorly....An amazing mine though and a great experience.... our good friend Steve Arris was the tire manager there for a while... Grahame
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Would you care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide" ? ?
@RIZFERD
2 ай бұрын
STFU western world is the truly evil, look at thousands of years history western world deeds around the world.
Without the legendary "Ilyas Hamid" , non of this would ever have happened.
Well done guys 👍😊
Gold volcano must be nice unless it is in your backyard. Tram cables out of tune very interesting.
so what impact did this huge hole have on the environment of the area?
@owenwilson25
11 ай бұрын
Birth rate plummeted (due to copper in the water), massive mercury poisoning levels among the indigenous population (panning the Freeport wash as it flows downriver) as they try to survive among the Indonesians and other foreigners who've colonised their homelands, HIV/AIDS became rampant due to TNI transferring all of Indonesia's infected prostitutes (after sex with Thail fishermen) to Papua; all the classic colonial abuse you'd expect.
@RR-.-
11 ай бұрын
Free West Papua
@user-wp1pl5je2u
9 ай бұрын
@@owenwilson25 Absolutely...a more one sided doc I have seldom seen. Pure agit prop
Hamid awesome work
wow amazing
amazing
An oldy but a goody documentary/puff piece. Grasberg has long-since gone underground rather than open-pit. Almost everyone mentioned in the piece is dead/retired.
Are they finding gold fast enough to match the new money printed?
Greetings from somewhere close to Fort Knox, Kentucky U.S.A.
The mining company did not give anything back to the people who own the land and the minerals, where has all the benefits gone.
@pedal-ninja
Жыл бұрын
true. and don't forget the level of corruption among government officials
Uzbekistans old name was Oltin Orda, means golden land, it holds 90% of all gold of earth , Russia takes 4000 ton gold every year from Uzbekistan
Fascinating documentary . Everything seems so sucessful and clean ... no pollution , toxic waste or harming natives and nature . An ideal example for the whole mining industry at that time ...☺😇
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Would you care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , and how about the New York Times article "Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste" ? ? Or do a KZread search for West Papua War..
@jeanmarcleplattenier2762
8 ай бұрын
sarcasm?
@flouisbailey
5 ай бұрын
@@owenwilson25 Thanks for your research. Mining always causes holes 🕳 see EV mining to save planet. Sarcastic as comments usually are.
Background music(?) is crap and makes it hard to hear. Documentaries do not require background music, it detracts from the narrative, it is basically noise when trying to hear the narrator.
These 2 giant mines destroyed the natural habitat and sanctity of the place......😢
The second time watching this amazing feat. Still incredible!
@RR-.-
11 ай бұрын
Free West Papua
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Would you care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide" ? ? Or the New York Times article, "Below a mountain of gold, a river of waste"
The geophysical aspects of these discoveries and engineering feats are truly phenomenal. What is missing is the geopolitical history that preceded the development of these incredible mines and the wealth they have produced. Allan Dulles was the head of the CIA following the second world war. He was also an attorney for the Rockefellers. He learned of the gold and copper deposits as he was working for the family at the time Nelson Rockefeller's son 'disappeared' in the jungle. Dulles and the CIA were behind the coup that eventually displaced the Dutch colonies and put a CIA ally in power in what eventually became Irian Jaya The Dulles and CIA involvement also has a connection to the assassination of JFK, as was politically supporting Sukarno who held power in what had been the Dutch East Indies while being undermined in secret by Allan Dulles and the CIA who actively, but covertly, supported General Suharto who gained power in a coup following JFK's death. Dulles needed JFK not to support Sukarno while he, Dulles, was committed to using the CIA to put Suharto in power behind his back. There was more than just the mutual hatred between JFK and Dulles and the CIA after the Castro debacle to underwrite the assassination. There was the huge amount of gold to be extracted with Dulles help by US control of General Suharto.
@kryptovista3648
Жыл бұрын
Great background info! Thanks!
@TheSopheom
Жыл бұрын
I've long heard of the "disappearance" but never the backstory. I should have known it wasn't a random retreat to the wilderness.
@laurencemcguigan2225
Жыл бұрын
Calm down jason bourne
@TheSopheom
Жыл бұрын
@@laurencemcguigan2225 lolllll, funny
@shubhammohnani8137
Жыл бұрын
How can i contact you. any instagram or fb ?
36:30 what they didn't mention is they had to replace the breaks on every truck no less than once a week I was one of the drivers from 89 to 94 I loved that job but it was scary tho us drivers named the rd the rd from hell but I was making 18k each month and that was great great money back then I saved it and started my own company called earth movers I'm still working everyday lol
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
traitor.
i remember sir.john morton 1 of the genious geologies..i know
Awesome
I don't think the ore was anywhere near as rich, it was mostly copper. But the total amount of gold might have been larger, in the gold deposit that Anaconda planned to mine sixty years ago in Lewis and Clark county, Montana. After people found out the mine would have produced an open pit twenty miles wide, that idea got shut down fast. The copper, gold, and zinc are still there, but getting the metal out would ruin the area, and no mine was ever opened there. You'll notice that most big mines are located a long way from any areas that would be wrecked by the mining. Nobody is allowed to strip mine coal in the U.S. without restoring the mined property to the vegetation that was there originally.
@owenwilson25
11 ай бұрын
Geologists have assured me there would have been several US$billion in gold on the surface when Bechtel bulldozed the area for Freeport, unfortunately it is impossible to know how much gold has been removed as it does not need to be sold in a market like copper does, and due to the infamous connections of Bechtel & Freeport with all of the former and current CIA directors there's no way of know what uses this undocumnted supply of gold has been used for.
@TheSilmarillian
9 ай бұрын
Same here downunder opal miner here and where I live banned open cuts about 40yrs ago they end up as very large holes that are never remediated
@TheSilmarillian
9 ай бұрын
@@owenwilson25 Valid point indeed
@lucienvandegaart3611
8 ай бұрын
Would take hundreds of years
@jeanmarcleplattenier2762
8 ай бұрын
How many mines were restored to original conditions? Very rare. I have seen numerous open pit mines which are not restored. Huge piles of slag and overburden are the result.
600,000 tons, 1 gram of gold per ton, 28 grams per ounce so over 20,000 ounces at $1,700 per oz, looks like around $35 million per day just off gold. Amazing find indeed
@TriviaWonderland
10 ай бұрын
and the rest. Goodman for thinking.
@kenneybis1097
10 ай бұрын
@@TriviaWonderland Someone has to
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Now you know why Indonesia assassinated UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjod, but do you understand why the US and Soviets help conceal the act? Would you care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide" ? ? Westt Papua is UN trust territory that the UN is still concealing from the agenda of the UN Trusteeship Council so the Council can not begin its legal duties under articles 85 part 2, 87 and 88 of the UN Charter.
@jamielee9350
9 ай бұрын
Don't forget it has infrastructure and running costs of $22 million per day... That leaves gross profit of $13 million per day , less taxes = $9 million per day X 7 = $63 million per week X 52 = $ 3,276 million per annum . NOT A BAD PAY DAY ... Wish it was mine ... (No pun intended) 🤣🤣🤣
@lucienvandegaart3611
8 ай бұрын
Aboriginies Always get burned by white europeans greed. Zeems to of spread like a fatal disease World wide
What I'm worried is when they found that the earth core is a solid good what they do
Ill build that Road with One Skidsteer. ❤
Some of my friend who's a geology student in Indonesia just finished their internship there. They're amazed by the size of the mining pit. It's also one of my dream to work there as a geologist.
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Would you care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide" ? ?
@hagnier14
9 ай бұрын
@@owenwilson25 I'm aware of this issue, but your reply seems unrelated to my comments on this video. So, if you'd like to find another place to start a discussion on the topic, I'd be happy to 😃
@owenwilson25
6 ай бұрын
@@hagnier14 Don't cry, I'm not forcing you to have morals, just ensuring you're aware of the issues.
@Bob_Adkins
4 ай бұрын
@@owenwilson25 Google "Small-minded soy boys that fear everything and are jealous of real men that do real work so you can have your i-Phone". Following your rules, we would still be in the stone age.
20 years to build, costing over 3 billion dollars. That can easily tell you how huge is this mine Its obvious that ROI is so huge
Man ! Even when I was in my 20s , in excellent physical shape, I knew I couldn't take high heat ++ humidity . Last 25 + years, people in the west call this Rain Forrest. That's a cuddly name for a JUNGLE, with Really nasty insects, snakes, funguses , all the while trying to get enough oxygen. Even a very hot desert is better . Or nasty cold . Growing up, Rain Forrest was temperate range areas , such as the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon , with heavy rainfall & heavy green growth, but tolerable temperatures . Real JUNGLE : you can Have it !
16:22 No airport eh?
Amazing! Amazing place amazing people!
The forest and nature suffered as much as the workers
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
And the indigenous population suffering the US / Indonesian occupation, care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide" ? ?
Why is the volume of this video SO LOW ???
Kultahankkeet on tehnyt Ihmiset ahneiksi.onneksi ei uusiutuva.aina voidaan kertoa tarinoita .
If everybody living here is part of the 1% I give this country and mine endorsement
Incredible story all right. About Greed.
@lionelk.1739
4 ай бұрын
I agree it is about greed. I want to know. Who gets the money?
Great documentary at night I look for stuff like this to help me unwind after a long day and this one relaxed me so I can sleep lol
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Its political propaganda paid for by Indonesia. Would you care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide" ? ?
Papua's natural resource gold mines are excavated but the people's lives are still at a low level. This mine is also one of the big reasons why the snow at Jaya's peak is falling away. Finally a priceless natural beauty is disappearing. Who is greedy?
@olewetdog6254
Жыл бұрын
So true. I don't understand how they could allow something like this without making sure their own people benefit from it.
@mastercreamer1398
Жыл бұрын
Just about everyone is greedy it seems to me. Terrible world these days
@gwizzler
Жыл бұрын
@@olewetdog6254 thats a question for the Indo government. You can be sure they got their cut. Where it went is the real question.
@makenocommento-kj4gq
Жыл бұрын
@eddy671, what do you suggest instead?, It goes without saying that the workers deserve the best safety conditions and fair pay, do U believe the mine should stop?, Perhaps you can pay the wages instead
@secretagent86
Жыл бұрын
Lots of gold already in storage. We really don’t need more. Rip down a mountain poison the envrionment for what? Do put gold into another hole
Greed is progress Greed is growth Greed is every thing Why does sacrifice in small thing when your able to get the universe in your hand
@traianliviudanciu8665
5 ай бұрын
Greed can be evil
What about the paycheck for those truck driver ?🤔
lol to think they host national hard enduro races here and ride all throughout the mine and surrounding jungle
Key West in the Florida Keys was once a 10,000 foot mountain of gold until it was all mined leaving a low lying island
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
But at least those were 'Americans' mining America, not a foreign military invasion from Asia 3500km away from the Australian island and indigenous peoples of Papua. The authors of the 'New York Agreement' were criminals, and the on-going international looting stunning.
A marvel of man's determination.
@southernsmoke8391
Жыл бұрын
Or the level of man’s greed.
@kirilmihaylov1934
Жыл бұрын
@@southernsmoke8391 right
@robmarshall956
Жыл бұрын
@@southernsmoke8391 is greed a skin colour issue for you ?
@ldkbudda4176
Жыл бұрын
@@southernsmoke8391 What about eating some people from another tribe? How you call it then, mister rightcheous? ;)
@icosthop9998
Жыл бұрын
@@robmarshall956 no answer
You need to find platinum cave........it is very close but we had no gear
Can someone say something about the gold and oil in Haiti?
Upon reading histories since 1982, I was reading about the slave labour gulags in Siberia in the 20th century. Those people were mostly innocent nationalists not happy with Russia's denationalisation program, a dodgy inhumane undertaking instituted by Moscow. Many of the slave labourers, zeks were Ukrainians, since Russia was for 200 or more years trying to bury anything Ukrainian. Apparently many zeks died on those gulags, from bad nourishment, bad weather, minus temperatures, bad treatment and such. One place was the Kolyma area of Siberia, and accounts state that it had(and possibly has), enormous gold deposits. Not that that mattered to the zeks, many of whom died prematurely. One account mentions that, during a spring thaw, a whole hillside uncovered masses of corpses. Mention is made of temperatures, during winter, of -71°C.
Is there anywhere on this planet that we haven’t trashed ?
P LEASE LOOK A C.F.GET THE WORKERS AND PAY THEM A DECENT WAGE AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR HEALTH ... THE WORLD 🌎IS MONITORING YOU !!!
I hope sufficient dollars are set aside to cover the reclamation. Often these big companies sell out once the end is near, taking away the profits and leaving some nothing company to hold the bag. Once bankrupt it falls to the locals to pay for
@runethorsen8423
9 ай бұрын
The countries should simply look at the passport - if they are American they are here to exploit. Don't let them in.
This made me feel quite sick. The only shout out the locals got was that they might be cannibals without even doing them the decency of providing evidence. Nothing about how this likely ruined their home, changed their lives forever and broke up their way of life that probably hadn’t changed much in centuries. Some idiot got rich though. Whoop Whoop. FFS.
@chaseblood1618
Жыл бұрын
You sure added a lot of baseless context there. 🙄
@TheBSDetector99
11 ай бұрын
@@chaseblood1618 they are still killing the locals. I'm with Andy. The Indos and the Americans are in it together- sickening
@user-wp1pl5je2u
9 ай бұрын
@@chaseblood1618 "Baseless"? Do you know ANYTHING AT ALL about the damage these huge mining projects do to the indigeneous people and the environment? Didn't think so.........not because the information on the true cost of these metals is not out there, but because YOU don't want to face it.
@Bob_Adkins
4 ай бұрын
@@user-wp1pl5je2u You wear a COVID mask inside your car alone, don't you?
Where is gold
Oh, the lives that were lost to build a gold mine.... I think the better New Guinea story is the small, scrappy Aussie military force that faced down the Imperial Japanese Army in the same highland of New Guinea 80 years ago in WW2. Against all odds, they repelled an enemy trying to smash the Australian Nation.
@colonelfustercluck486
5 ай бұрын
yeah,. but they were slightly to the east in WW2. The mine in this video is in Indonesia, previously Dutch New Guinea territory in WW2 (west side of the island). The Aussies did their WW2 New Guinea campaign in Papua New Guinea( east side). The mining business continues today on both sides of the border, in the highlands... and all over the place. Same with Oil and Gas... there are operators from all over the world, in various areas. And definately all over PNG
I did some work on a home belonging to one of the owners of that mine. Opulent beyond description.
@Jerry-vx2hq
6 ай бұрын
The Illuminati for sure.
There is place hidden it’s worlds biggest gold reserve!
Sorry, just made it back from mining a creek, i thought i heard drumming all dang day
WAS THIS Indonesian hero who build the dangerous road giving at least a fat compensation for his heroic triumph??
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Indonesian hero??!! Care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide". Or search KZread for 'West Papua War' or 'Bombing Paradise' ? ?
@mannycontreras5266
9 ай бұрын
@@owenwilson25 I see that I spark a fire. To start I'm sorry I don't know Indonesias past or present difficulties, CHILD labor mishaves and so on. My only two cents were based on a video I saw on KZread regarding a wealthy company finding 1 or 2 spots were millions of gold, copper Orr were found. And we're this Indonesian man build an impossible road.
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
@@mannycontreras5266 What the video omits is that West Papua is legally not part of Indonesia, not even part of Asia, it is some 3500km east of Java (Indonesia) because Papua is the northern 10% of the Australian continental land mass. That's why Papua has kangaroos, echidna, cassowaries, etc. and why Papuans look like Australian aboriginals because they are the same race whose ancestors settled Papua and all of the southern continent some fifty to seventy thousand years ago. Indonesia and Freeport are looting West Papua, they made multiple invasions during the 1950s each of which failed, in Dec' 1961 Indonesia launched Operation Trikora invasion which again failed as Papuans arrested the Indonesians, but earlier in Sep' 1961 the UN Secretary General was killed and replaced by Indonesia's buddy U Thant mostly because two days before Dag Hammarskjold was killed Indonesia announced it was refusing to accept the role as President of the 1961 General Assembly and thereby forcing the popular Mongi Slim of Tunisia to be President and thereby unable to be nominated as Secretary General when news came 36 hours later that Hammarskjold was dead. U Thant pressed the Americans to get the Dutch to sign what is now known as the 'New York Agreement' in which they are asking the UN General Assembly to annex West Papua and appoint Indonesia as administrator of the colony. - Unfortunately our governments in article 81 and 85 of the UN Charter granted themselves the option to authorise UN annexations irrespective of local objections. Although article 85 part 2 requires that such action be reported to the UN Trusteeship Council so the Council can begin making its yearly UN reports about victims of UN annexations, U Thant decided not to tell the Council about West Papua... And so for the past 61 years Indonesia and others have enjoyed their freedom to kill and loot West Papuan people at will. THAT is the reason any 'Indonesian' building any road or other colonial looting asset in Papua is a international criminal, not a "hero"
They got the right contractor in Bechtel.
@Adroit1911
Жыл бұрын
I played pool with a pilot for that company. Really nice dude.
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Bechtel king of every filthy scheme from privatizing South America's water to looting Papuan gold at Indonesian gun point and between.
Did the country where the mines are situated. Build its own smelter, so the it can crate value for its economy or just remain a supplier of raw material?
bro who is recording this!
In my David Givins head 😅😂😊❤❤ is the world's largest gold reserve!
@owenwilson25
9 ай бұрын
Care to Google the Yale Law School title "Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control" , or the Asian Human Rights title "Neglected Genocide" ? ? How about looking up the 'death' of Dag Hammarskjold and how Indonesia got the US to be is bitch creating the 'New York Agreement' for today's occupation.
The entire was left in an chaotic dismay. I've traveled to the area quite a few times and it's a disgrace. What this company has done to the entire region.
50:55 Darien Gap
...in my vault!
just shows how greedy the world is for gold and copper.
I'd go for Liebherr or Cat any day over Komatsu..... although all three are great "Heavy's"
The worlds most valuable commodity is CONTENTMENT and PEACE OF MIND for no money nor precious metal can buy it...❤❤
Irian jaya. 1:27
Let’s log it mine it and concrete the place 😅
So if there is not food. Can u eat gold Any answers ???.
They found one in Alaska,getting permits in place
Respect man !!!
deep within the core must lie scads of gold, being heavy, it must migrate inwards…