That it. Is 6 years old. She suffers from a paralyzing brain disease or you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time and the dust from the mine cotton specially this dust you pull your kid in the piece. Before you sleep you must face. That and everyone kids oh yeah a few weeks later the 1st signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. Communicate with her. When she she was to be changed. Yeah and then she she kicks it is ok theyre all maybe when she wants to go i said ricci she kisses him and she screams you know. They you know she has to go out say that you want to. Poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mind dust but they are no doubt is there are other fears like under her own was the same symptoms same Health Issues and i do know in day theres a pinch out there is going to go the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they dont want anybody knowing up idea kids in this situation theres 2 of them opposite houses in the in the sense 3 of them 2 of them or many of them you know personally personally strange is something that have made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel today my today taking them to today didnt think so but if you go of any distance from here in eve you me never find this key. To find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. Must climb snake park hill. It has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. Access is supposedly forbidden theres nobody guarding the site which extends over 4 square kilometers while the motive for about 6 is being run from a soldiers each. Day then to me it turned the dishes on it. Was similar. To. The price and. Takes 500 grams of the sun. The dust thats blowing over the village below. On the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. Its used mostly to area gate adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even bay the net of this will. Ok or if i can put in will do. For the. Paws of the news media have put it. Frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at Northwestern University in south africa getting to me. Linda is also an expert on mining illusion the government the World Health Organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so im at the bottom of the mine turnings theres some water all around i was wondering which parent those fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water mining. Trucks trying to. Elevate. Ok. I. Thought it would seem recently gone by. So. Many dont but in point of missouri. If it comes up in the us youre going to get arsenic which is a metal. Cream you can. See. If you put it like that. So i think. Just so you know it was. Says although. The maximum they were going to continue to pose for them. Its impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. But the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. After some convincing one of the countrys top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. With. Gold fields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. The team cant go underground into the mine itself and the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. But at night you will see on the front by a number of. Business thread including we are doing a plus minus 5500. 00 tons. Per day i mean we have reaching out on 300. 00 tons to our depends on a lot of viability and how many times of oil is there. So there or that you see on the still fall is what i mean at the plus minus 5 times but done thats always currently. Only 5 grams of gold for each ton of coal mind thats a remarkable ratio. And it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. The precious metal is separated from the rest of the world and then heated in these killings. Public to make those where we used to live i said sorry not that youre pretty major i can make those you know prices and the quarter mega nice in city got. Including so that c. P. R. So you add all of these together with these with the goal of. The last stages the cost at 800. 00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. The end result told us. At 84 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around 538000. 00. Goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. Producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of frances eiffel towers. The company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. Within a few years this hail will become another Steep Mountain of debris reaching up to 70 meters high. Andrew passons and Stephen Joseph are its grand architects. Whats in there. What it is its. Well its its whats left over from there from the extraction process its the rock that. Held the gold. And whats left behind off the gold has been removed so its silica and other materials its the sand. And other metals but many silica is there and you have the metals for example there. Could be trace amounts but but very small concentrations. And some of the gold always there is your random sauce deep has very little youre on your minutes or so. Theres very little uranium. In the us in the stomach you. Will get really. Not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a tonne 40 to 50 annually south African Mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is the daily basis the gold from. But the radiation 50 would probably be. Ok or. Over time the waste produced by south africas gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open at. According to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding 600000 tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as Nuclear Installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over 20000 residents. Of. Oil Bruno Sherry Ron is an engineer in Nuclear Physics and an expert from korea ratched a Research Association in radioactivity when i was i was the only. Going to think that they were. That commercial school shaken too much you must. Feel they will be a little bit. Also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want to take to sort of you know make sure the group on television i mean to depict it. I know my point of view to see not just here young men get much it even to be able. To do is it true that you really need to do risk or deep within your she thought to go to the young mom and me to. Meet in a joint in our corn meal i dont as. You dont want to do this with this point 30000000 because you know. And you cannot sell gounder. On a cell with a country lets work on the us for. I just dont. Know i guess you want to force the daughter to try. And they said. To you to find us. Do think it was only one tree for. Her and. How did we did to close on a letter that. Master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 Nuclear Disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. Era keeps around 40 goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long linen above all if they last week last week. One month one months of all yeah yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your. Writings show then said as for success this is a. Eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. They want to. Know is well. Know what you must. But this is the fungible one it is a. Mine so. I want to learn. It. And i mess. So when you see these every day what do you think. Was the motion and. I would go and talk about to you but its just the bins. It seems as though erics goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. We are close to the mine tailings far. Look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should have some bowl of the animals. After takes 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for Meat Consumption including one who is blind. I come up with the results of the china factor or the instructor thanks so you but i. Must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africas council the scientific and industrial research. Here is the water from the tailings just across the. It is used as a rigorous no water jesus Us Immigration and also for almost a drink we also use on a small samples train job is done with a saw it was considered as low main competitors and so what can you what can you look for years almost all day then ever the man goes by did and then continentals like yo yo now i am your lead you know why as in we shop and talks and can basically when. We need an expert to get them in order once we get them then and trays and go right. As he waits for the analysis time returns to the investigation in part 2. As the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an Industry Insider what i find particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a colossal bad idea. For 23 years mustnt has collected objects the kinds along the coast. 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May have had its hottest day ever on thursday 38. 7 degrees celsius was recorded in cambridge germany france belgium and the netherlands also had a record breaking heat this week those are the headlines now back to south africa toxic city. Hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around Johannesburg South africas most populous city but they arent a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings waste heaps left over from south africas hugely profitable gold industry. Many are also said to be dangerously toxic awash with heavy metals poisons and radioactive debris. With expert help french journalist must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. But one night while he waits for the results he gets a mysterious Voicemail Message along i heard your interest. Money great you really are out there out there under the bridge in a month well i worked at an environmental challenges me up for a while and i would very much appreciate you you know youre going to come around again i will work about it thank you very much. The message is from a geologist eagle club chick after a 20 year career in the Mining Industry has now left it disgusted by the industrys failure to had his warnings about dealing with its waste ill tell you what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is you radium grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said what was the only way you doing reports where you listened at that time i will have written lots of reports i must have some sort of a record in emails probably over over 100 so after a while you know i was explained look what you are proposing costs money i mean 1st of all you have to decode the contaminant. Its the land that is number one number 2 you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from grapes them with up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is really basically put it to normal you put it back to where it was how does it make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their Health Problem doesnt make you fear makes you feel like a murderer. What we have done like i said we have created an enormous and were mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and what a mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok were feeding the nation or the gold Mining Industry do it in a reached a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made in probably one of the biggest and one mental disasters in the world. So yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing ricing head. Start heads back to sea from everett from goma. His current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered in person by frank bender the johannas but professor barnett studies also one of the vote. But i was right back when. The professor has come to see erics livestock for himself. You see. The test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated eriks foam and uranium isnt the only problem. For example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your in your water sample over 2 cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have an ego being elevated to solace in times of authentic this elevated 50 times as opposed to 500 ok the most lets say indicative mental form binding impact and that is you are a new in those tailings that is about 10 times what you would see in a Natural Environment 10 times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did about 100 times more than one would find it on polluted actual pristine water source of. The form surrounded by pollution which just. Its animals badly contaminated and. Its disturbing news. The health of your goat yeah shows the highest level or so. You see uranium is 60 times for elevated but all the lead is that elevated to 80 times meaning almost 100 times above whats normal thats the same was cobalt thats the same as also nick and 600 times one nickel but maybe you didnt know if youre just going to says ok all right i can have all of the yes you can have its all yours but soldiers. My dog was out for nailing in doubt right for you fly me. A farm when livestock die prematurely townships which children have Neurological Disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. But all the medical links between poor health and mining conditions so clear cut. Stoff at this read open Health Clinic might have some odd sense. Among their patients is. Its the 3rd time this month that my youngest son has taken an l. Ok. All right there is no. Need to let you know its too much of yourself it was ages of us and mike is not to let you go to the left is wonderful because of them dont know whos awake. So hes going to yours. Their baby has called brocade shes. Of ours just into school and its sometimes we see the worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. She was having. In drawings of the little dust because of the dust this is something that you will see on daily average yes you have been here youve got number of cases not to really there should be a study like you were mentioning is that everybody who are living close to their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do real estate. Astonishingly the South African state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. But can. You catch up with you again. Back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting would. Give us go oh its. Very heavy so you have to do this every day. This is your house ok tunisias the small shack with her 4 children. Is again as single i live by the bible is a. Claim and im up on the corner quinola is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. And her children live only a few doesnt need his from the mine dumps where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. She agrees to provide has samples to test what levels. Contamination but the response to it is ok thinking that it knew all along some pinay director of the institute for research and scientific expertise and comes online. To mean you know. Will come on tell you come on then hes commotion to pull. It in yeah if you blow it was he killed you gale norton i just you know me. So me i dont. Know she. Is one of the sort. Of want to put in a bit will he see what im into there yes you could for none of these disputed kind of move. You put in culture get you looking takes yourself. National. Love that they dont pay you well thats. Right you can turn. It all right that should be more than enough. For us and then. Use them all and then you would put. We have said you must consult me did you like this want to. Go next. Or a perfect. Master has also taken to has songs from the turn to whom we matched only a little girl suffering from year old to suit a moving look. This is one of a lot of thinking so done little. To look beautiful. Ah. And then more 10 in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor penny in france. Once again theyll be a few days of waiting for the results. In the meantime goes looking for gold. Some of south africas most profitable export is used in the Electronics Industry some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the worlds major Luxury Brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. Do you approach you know jennifer was full of those little. Nor any of them seem to respond to questions show then theres one of them called just how do you know matilda clearly because you dont know how good the flow of their lives can for the job business on this one the more this one is of utmost importance she is really going to communicate but leaving dont you know from the mother was one time was a good moment when the mongia federal police each of them to come from the city to indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from. New delhi and you can you can bust one question the reason long italian brand is the 3rd largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using a lot of gold. Its time to go shopping. To greece headquarters. Johannesburg located in sand and city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxurious Shopping Mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost 78700. 00. But again no one here seems to know where that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether. Here in the National Gallery you knew where the gold comes from if you talk about it all the gold the gold you use in your jewelry. You know i you know the idea that are ok dont you think it is kind of a surprising that you dont know where the gold comes from the directly from the you leave the room you know ok