Where Is The World's Largest Gold Reserve? | Super Structures | Progress
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- 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.
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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.
The minerals recovered will never cover the negative environmental and social impacts.
Evidence please?
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 😂😂😂
A jaw dropping story. Never heard this one before. Absolutely incredible what determined people can achieve.
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!🙏
Nevada, USA, has a hell of a lot of gold as well.
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
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!!!
Jean Dozy died ashamed of the on-going ethic cleansing of West Papua and international looting that his 1936 survey lead to.
Richest country but poorest citizen 😢
Who fucking cares, 50 years ago plus
What did the citizenry do to develop the resource?
Grid and absolute madness thrives those destructive people
I worked for the company who built the conveyors that brings the gold and copper out to transport.
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.
@@bobmitchell8012The mines in this video are the largest in the world.
The top of the mountain is almost solid gold.
I WANT TO BUILD A Gold Mining Company I know a secret site
@@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.
And what is your point?
Is it just Bragging?
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.
You are amazing ❤
ROAD CLEARERS DO treeMENdous WORK.
are you an engineer?
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?
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.
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.
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).
Yep its the beginning of what where called cargo cults mana from the sky
Great story, great history, great discovery. Well done.
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 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
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" ? ?
STFU western world is the truly evil, look at thousands of years history western world deeds around the world.
You have forgotten one significant variable. The massive copper mine in Panama is competing with the canall for water
Staggeringly complex and dangerous. Amazing.
Honestly, how could anyone chalk this up as progress? It's a shame the locals weren't hungry.
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 TH-cam 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.
why you want hungry locals?
If they'd been eating the miners the weapons technology mismatch would have been demonstrated
Fascinating history of the gold mining in that area. I presume it still operates today.
Its still operating but Indonesian Gov now own big chunk of Freeport share there
I love Jay Pennington!
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.
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
traitor.
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.
Great background info! Thanks!
I've long heard of the "disappearance" but never the backstory. I should have known it wasn't a random retreat to the wilderness.
Calm down jason bourne
@@laurencemcguigan2225 lolllll, funny
How can i contact you. any instagram or fb ?
The mining company did not give anything back to the people who own the land and the minerals, where has all the benefits gone.
true.
and don't forget the level of corruption among government officials
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?
So true. I don't understand how they could allow something like this without making sure their own people benefit from it.
Just about everyone is greedy it seems to me. Terrible world these days
@@olewetdog6254 thats a question for the Indo government. You can be sure they got their cut. Where it went is the real question.
@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
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
You picture says “Biggest Gold Mine” yet , your heading says Biggest Gold Reserve , so , which is it ?
51:01 K2 mountain climb.
also Denali
Fantastic doco
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 !
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.
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.
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
@@owenwilson25 Valid point indeed
Would take hundreds of years
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.
GREAT WELL DONE EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE THANK YOU
Gold volcano must be nice unless it is in your backyard. Tram cables out of tune very interesting.
Amazing
The second time watching this amazing feat. Still incredible!
Free West Papua
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"
wow 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.
Suez canal comes to mind..
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.
You sure added a lot of baseless context there. 🙄
@@chaseblood1618 they are still killing the locals. I'm with Andy. The Indos and the Americans are in it together- sickening
@@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.
@@user-wp1pl5je2u You wear a COVID mask inside your car alone, don't you?
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
and the rest. Goodman for thinking.
@@TriviaWonderland Someone has to
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.
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) 🤣🤣🤣
Aboriginies Always get burned by white europeans greed. Zeems to of spread like
a fatal disease World wide
Its like mining the top of everest ❤
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 ...☺😇
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 TH-cam search for West Papua War..
sarcasm?
@@owenwilson25
Thanks for your research. Mining always causes holes 🕳 see EV mining to save planet. Sarcastic as comments usually are.
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.
Well done guys 👍😊
Briliant!
Hamid awesome work
These 2 giant mines destroyed the natural habitat and sanctity of the place......😢
amazing
Greetings from somewhere close to Fort Knox, Kentucky U.S.A.
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 !!!
so what impact did this huge hole have on the environment of the area?
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.
Free West Papua
@@owenwilson25 Absolutely...a more one sided doc I have seldom seen. Pure agit prop
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
i remember sir.john morton 1 of the genious geologies..i know
Without the legendary "Ilyas Hamid" , non of this would ever have happened.
Awesome
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.
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" ? ?
@@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 😃
@@hagnier14 Don't cry, I'm not forcing you to have morals, just ensuring you're aware of the issues.
@@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.
Amazing! Amazing place amazing people!
Are they finding gold fast enough to match the new money printed?
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
Greed can be evil
Kultahankkeet on tehnyt Ihmiset ahneiksi.onneksi ei uusiutuva.aina voidaan kertoa tarinoita
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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.
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
WAS THIS Indonesian hero who build the dangerous road giving at least a fat compensation for his heroic triumph??
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 TH-cam for 'West Papua War' or 'Bombing Paradise' ? ?
@@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 TH-cam 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.
@@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"
Ill build that Road with One Skidsteer. ❤
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
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.
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
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" ? ?
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
The countries should simply look at the passport - if they are American they are here to exploit. Don't let them in.
16:22 No airport eh?
lol to think they host national hard enduro races here and ride all throughout the mine and surrounding jungle
Respect man !!!
What about the paycheck for those truck driver ?🤔
If everybody living here is part of the 1% I give this country and mine endorsement
I never expected the world largest gold mine located in Indonesia. May the use of natural resources put in good use for the nation and the local people of Papua
It is pretty amazing. I did 2 120 day work visas there in 93-94 doing network installation and turn up working with the Indonesians. We worked from the port site to the mine and even did some underground work.
@@Chris_at_HomeAny advice for starting work as a starter in one of these mines?
You must be joking.
The evil Indonesians have repressed the native West Papuans for decades for their riches. The Kopassus (Indonesian Special Forces) are currently killing West Papuan freedom fighters who are fighting for Independence. West Papua and Papua New Guinea should become one country! Australia, NZ, UK and the USA should support their Independence and union because Indonesia could easily become the Iran of South East Asia!
A white built that infrastructure a long time ago. Indonesia gets its cut but the white man, as usual, get the larger, unfair cut.
I did some work on a home belonging to one of the owners of that mine. Opulent beyond description.
The Illuminati for sure.
The worlds most valuable commodity is CONTENTMENT and PEACE OF MIND for no money nor precious metal can buy it...❤❤
The forest and nature suffered as much as the workers
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" ? ?
Incredible story all right. About Greed.
I agree it is about greed.
I want to know. Who gets the money?
You need to find platinum cave........it is very close but we had no gear
A marvel of man's determination.
Or the level of man’s greed.
@@southernsmoke8391 right
@@southernsmoke8391 is greed a skin colour issue for you ?
@@southernsmoke8391 What about eating some people from another tribe? How you call it then, mister rightcheous? ;)
@@robmarshall956 no answer
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.
I'd go for Liebherr or Cat any day over Komatsu..... although all three are great "Heavy's"
Why is the volume of this video SO LOW ???
Is there anywhere on this planet that we haven’t trashed ?
Can someone say something about the gold and oil in Haiti?
Where is gold
In my David Givins head 😅😂😊❤❤ is the world's largest gold reserve!
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.
50:55 Darien Gap
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.
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?
New Guinea politically divided to fight against the other half of itself. While being robbed blind. These natives didn't realized how rich they were. USA & EUROPEAN COUNTRIES...
Excellent, well done video of a very interesting subject that I knew little about nor could I imagine anything like that either. That's what the price of gold and silver are based on - the cost of development and the ingenuity needed to do the actual developing to get the gold out of the ground. That's why the anti Pebble Project people in Alaska are going to lose that fight. They're NEVER going to walk away from a place in the US in Alaska where there's that much valuable minerals that's there for the taking that they already own. If they didn't walk away from Indonesia because of the challenges they faced there, Pebble will be a piece of cake comparatively speaking.
Initially development is a big cost, but probably 75% of the cost of gold and silver are diesel fuel. If diesel prices dropped to $2, gold and silver prices would collapse.
There is place hidden it’s worlds biggest gold reserve!
...in my vault!
They got the right contractor in Bechtel.
I played pool with a pilot for that company. Really nice dude.
Bechtel king of every filthy scheme from privatizing South America's water to looting Papuan gold at Indonesian gun point and between.
What I'm worried is when they found that the earth core is a solid good what they do
Grand canyon all the way to chocolate mountain. Eisenhower had military bases built on top of them.
Cannabis concentrate is $2600 an ounce with tax here in Illinois.
Elon musk can provide with sensors that can help a lot. Those big trucks with proper road's marks can do the job
2MGconstruction here.
Irian jaya. 1:27
deep within the core must lie scads of gold, being heavy, it must migrate inwards…
Let’s log it mine it and concrete the place 😅