00:00This mercury is present in water, but also in fish, that we can't eat anymore.
00:30So we just arrived on the illegal mining site, and just by looking behind me, you realize how disgusting it is what they are doing.
00:36The guys, they have demolished everything, they have broken everything to settle here.
00:39They don't dig mines or stuff like that, it's really the gold that is on the surface.
00:42They bomb water at an immense pressure just to drop the sediments that are hanging.
00:48And the gold that is in it, of course.
00:50Then, they put mercury to amalgamate, to recover, to reunite all the minerals.
00:55Then, they put mercury to amalgamate, to recover, to reunite all the minerals.
00:58Then, they put mercury to amalgamate, to recover, to reunite all the minerals.
01:01And make some kind of pancakes.
01:08So here we are on a barge that belonged to the Garimperos.
01:11They pump all the bed of the river, so all the sediments, with this kind of huge pump.
01:15And in fact, the sediments will come out right here, by the end of the pump.
01:19We just have to scratch the mats, they put mercury to amalgamate the gold, and then we recover it.
01:23And except that behind you, you made a bastard trace, you spit out all the sediments.
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01:50In this region, it's 13 tons of mercury that are released every year in nature.
01:54Mercury will contaminate the whole ecosystem, and therefore, humans.
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