Gold mining practices at south western China mine

(10 Jan 2012)
AP Television
Guizhou Jinfeng mine, Guizhou Province - 21 October 2012
1. Close up of gold bars
2. Close up of worker's face
3. Worker building a pyramid from gold bars
4. Various of pyramid of gold bars
5. Wide of Guizhou Jinfeng open cut mine
6. Wide of terracing on rock face
7. Mid of terracing on rock face with mineral colouring
8. Various of machines working at mine
9. Office of mine manager Zhang Maosheng
10. Various of Zhang at his computer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Maosheng, General Manager, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company:
"The gold, especially in the economic crisis, people use the gold as hard currency deposit - normally the gold remains of good value in a bad economy. At the same time, China and India - we call them the emerging economies - the people get rich and they want this decoration, jewellery and other things, and that's another part."
12. Underground in mine, worker removing security chain
13. Shot from cab of jumbo drill
14. Jumbo drill in operation
15. Jumbo drill operator working
16. Drill end drilling rock
17. Close of jumbo drill hand levers
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Maosheng, General Manager, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company:
"We continue to do the drilling. We're confident we'll get more resources and those resources transfer to reserves and so further extend the mine life. So at this stage we're confident to have a 15 to 20 year mine life."
19. Engineers walking across marked-out terrace
20. Wide of terracing
21. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liao Xingen, Open Pit Mining Engineer, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company:
"We have many working opportunities because there are many gold mines in China and not many people study mining engineering, So the university graduate engineers have many working opportunities."
22. Dump truck entering underground mine
23. Sign above underground mine entrance reading (in English and Mandarin) "Jin Feng Underground Mine"
24. Sign with safety information
25. Control room at gold BIOX processing plant
26. Worker examining data
27. Various of graphics on computer showing processing stages
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Maosheng, General Manager, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company:
"We always want to be the best corporate citizens. And working in China, regardless in China or other countries, we want to make sure we have the best safety practice, environmental practice and at the same time we have social responsibility as well."
29. Wide of mine, ore feed and BIOX processing plant in the background
30. Ore on conveyor belt
31. Ore on stockpile
32. Wide of crushing plant
33. Close up of rotating crushing drums
34. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Yan, Processing Manager Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company:
"First we decide where to look for the gold. Then we take the gold ore to the BIOX plant. After filtering, the product is called gold alloy. Before the last step, because we used sodium cyanide - we have to get rid of the cyanide."
35. BIOX processing plant, tilt down
36. BIOX processing plant
37. Various of toxic chemicals in tank at processing plant
38. Processing plant
39. Wide of filled-in valley, new land for farming
40. Mountains, tilt down to vegetables growing on new farmland
41. Various of fruit trees growing on new farmland
LEAD IN:
China recently took over from South Africa as the world's leading gold producer.
With demand strong from both Chinese jewellery buyers and gold investors, production is increasing.
STORYLINE :
These gold bars each weigh 14 kilograms (30 pounds) and cost a small fortune.
This mine worker is handling some 800,000 US dollars a piece.
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[@tomkelly8827]

The mine looks good. Is it close enough to a city or town where you can sell the crushed rocks as aggregate too? I bet you could make more money on gravel than you could on the gold if you have the right location

[@kojoowusu-ansa3840]

Where can I watch the full documentary for this video

[@muhammaduddin9268]

Gold is not rare anymore, why is it still valuable?

[@axelsprangare2579]

Because it's in high demand. In jewelry, electronics etc.

[@OverThink]

Almost nothing on earth is valuable because of it’s rarity. It’s all about demand.

[@animexsenpai7909]

Demand and country reservation. Not all gold were sold to people only 10%. 90% of gold are keep by every country government.

[@muhammaduddin9268]

Gold used to be World currency at once.

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Tungsten core i see it..not much gold left in china

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