China's African Gold Rush | 101 East

Oh [Music] [Music] Ghana is one of the world's poorest countries but thousands of Chinese have come here willing to work hard deep in the rainforest hoping to strike it rich it's a modern-day Gold Rush I'm Steve Chow on this episode 101 East journeys deep into the heart of this African nation to investigate who's making the money and who's paying the price June 2013 [Music] donna's government suddenly cracks down on illegal Chinese gold miners [Music] hundreds of illegal mines are burned down across the country about 5,000 Chinese without valid papers have to leave the country most of them had come to Ghana in the early 2000s expecting goal and instant riches Ghana has always been known for its coal [Music] three years after the crackdown we visit Ghana we want to know how locals and Chinese gold miners now get along jinyoung way is one of them he came to Ghana three years ago at the age of 24 hoping to make a lot of money jelly jelly mentors g2g Tacoma grievously I'm sange anguish an Aikido a Zulu tend to have been a woman ke e : hold annual hold at color to Lincoln fauna summer songs are not a bit keep you training and decadron closer so go hey boo solo solo day boy go so deep we do search on Toya so turns out also something Bahama sorrow so he finally eat it back to London it takes us seven hours to drive to chin young ways mine in his car it's a long way from home and family most of these migrants lead a lonely life like Jinyoung weighs friend the young bin who rarely goes home to go without each other socially Paraiba to go to you know Paul awakened in general about you and Anna oh ji-ho difference tell you about would you like would you Samara judaculla business angel hi - Sookie yeah see how good I am my hand time I know he does Silas you and I wish it the other family give a can tell I had lonely and a book would usually work with John Donahoe was attending assassinated perfect field another job an antenna analyzer is treating you like my general title jurors literally she of material to little children from China we went to be internal flash hider gente de Cicco internalized Ramanujan in Connecticut River Gon Jinn chinchilla in Hanoi to girl is little Boogaloo toes and on my gonna wait holla 30 any idea until I put a little more fool you in each other everybody told Madani my son in Dawson and you want in July you will judge them as an incident to cloud identity no children July puts a dollar [Music] the trip wind through towns and past shanties until we reach the tropical rainforest the gold mines are in the heart of Ghana [Music] it looks like the end of the road we've arrived a Spartan camp a few barracks offer shelter minimal comfort but the miners don't mind they'll accept all of that for the promise of gold woman upon see earlier general pong bat AO manao little blue bar hey in that eye goes sighs mr. go-to over the locals are responsible for the tough jobs less skilled than the Chinese they do back-breaking work and everything that's dangerous they're excavating in small teams working in shifts their goal resting gold from the mud we got another Schengen go Delilah La Liga ibn Rabah can imagine they loosen the gold with a high-pressure water jet the gold miners work is method from China's Shang Lin region an area that specializes in gold mine the soil gradually releases tiny amounts of the precious metal this bowl contains perhaps a few grams of gold but here even that's worth a fortune sometimes thieves attack the cans that's why armed men keep guard it's okay twice a day the valuable bowl is escorted to the can at that point no one yet knows what it contains I don't wait in Shinjuku don't [ __ ] it up the final washing is done with a point people in a closed heart Asian kzkz now haha Goma really Elizabeth are now the Moody's update then finally the much wrongful goal Oh God oh hey Shiva you know if you ever use your cheap ha him down slam did not know exactly but the lychee bomba I took on the heart even it was a lead initiators are so much enjoyed of man and challenge I was early recording an epidemiology - Paula - you have a little while ago but I can't right now now teleport ahold of me with a little my brown this is your one team in addition to hide hide Hara Omega your hands to the power this morning the men end up with about 200 grams worth over six thousand dollars the half a day of work a good yield good quality but always with the fear that the golden days might suddenly end can they are bidding on although attending lying she would answer when you don't tell you've been sweet so good Oh [Music] some villages are against the gold mine as it poisons and destroys the land like their cocoa fields for generations cocoa has been a source of income to the locals they grow it on small parcels a book write this as MDMA a few years out Moulton I admire me to be 18 years ago 780 tears about you member how about this oh I don't know [ __ ] about my day was over a bit sympathy disabuse it Mazar Sienna cool / - every time I say or what you do monk I say the village chiefs regularly get together to discuss solutions but it's complicated many use from remote villages have found work in the gold mines for Chinese mines are quite often a community's biggest employer in deliverance but there is an environmental cost zhe two chiefs take us to where a river used to be this is where the villages once got their water the Chiefs still perform rituals for the river even though nothing remains of it except memories no matter what I was in your hovel how many opposing yes not watching we'll send you yeah I shall send you one pot now see penny will send you an apple an apple also Ananta Sesa be China and III tan and Williams at a school high school am no.1 you who say you had me on coffee in the idea pavani I did my AB you are from the D segment size of his man in the I'm applying my you've invited you but you can crank Regina Ghana hey Jason can you be a so the guy's a traitor quod non chromic answer why between Luca Dotti NASA now couch eeka lokka new good mais yo VV n yo boss a nominal could add a new whole visca Ophidian Quabbin bra hey LaDonna Sophie's many Amish Agana vodka for the Aimable down the road we see a shocking image the miners are long gone but they've totally destroyed the land leaving behind a barren moonscape awesome I agree met a local Habibi nah no cocoa the enemy this yellow mean Coco : Sauron o sky 1qo mojo I said yeah pop off Apollo yep I said see na yeah and yet mine animal same way am i aground onor this yes sir is it monk Gotama shoddy ha and then it'll be do you know who they know I got sour gravity cocoa trees have been destroyed everything is coming apart the river polluted the water undrinkable the fish gone this destruction galvanized the authorities to take action in 2013 they destroyed the illegal mines and deported five thousand Chinese miners the immigration office insists its actions were justified by in 2013 it was a major issue because it was all over the place in Ashanti region in western region in central region and we're feeling the effect of the water bodies being destroyed you could see water looking brown you think it's a it's an entire Road I was shocked that is what was happening because of such illegal mining activities this official lecture isn't easy for the Chinese migrants to hear some have suffered great losses like mr. su one of the richest and most powerful investors [Music] he came to Ghana in 1995 gold mining made him rich but in 2013 he lost many of his millions I'm Joie mechanic videos resort woman I didn t know shovel Ashley told Sudha Lin with a mug tamaki gently that woman aah woman towns of Judah yo grandma yeah boo chagrin mo not Oh Judas ing swallow a morsel ching chong vomit socialite parma ha ha time on a patrol the boutonniere a moto de puta follow to the puto daddy found me crazy function kendama our habu Johnny doe tied a boutique on occasion in Sinhala Chang rah powder cheap uh mega Gandhi or her Pooja despite the 2013 setback things are going well again for mr. soon the former English teacher can easily work with the authorities but he says he is an exception he thinks it is impossible for most Chinese immigrants to know when they can legally mine gold thought our port orange may years should I watch a FIFA okay John de Jan de la campaña turned upon us I'm a harsher favor she knows should punish it so much Yugi should they or failure ha so it took a form in downtown Ottawa and said early favor walk good anime Hyundai Bhuvan that does pay favor Mayo you got two more in Beijing visa TOWIE gardens on Tebow shoulder D from her home outlets in the world like favor I'll say don't stink so harsh regime but home yet she should put hungry angry drama I will what on any huh what on let's have on you they come here to make friends to do business but they get or opt if the missile other people who wants to give them a shortcut who want to lead them to shortcut of doing things it does only challenge I see with the Chinese but they are not they are not they are not they are the pair not bad at all they are like us we visit one of the mines where mr. su is a shareholder these partners are having breakfast preparing for the day of home you can know that you know to find a good idea their minds are a little wave from the camp there's dozens of acres of hand mine land here with techniques developed by the Chinese Ghanaian workers for hundreds of tons of soil every day the pay is above the national average who's a you says for his workers the job in the mind is a lucky break just one little jealous child I'm not going to I thought of a handle toilet authorities is kind of on the job are difficult a magician hides in yeah plus we're the same upon you enter now just wait I'm talking well it's aria haha those are claw Thank You Tempe you by the women told a hardback or just young bird or something better look at parts also I don't owe you - Anu bad this is a human is about Sudha there's a computer know that I'm gonna lie this young guy exactly I'm gonna fail their living conditions however seem very sparse as you can see by looking at their beds or the head job trimmings yeah a lot of those you this thermal insulated in the missile which rejoinder them that did various angles on you guys well the kitchen is also very basic but there is stunt pilot yeah hey Nico haha yeah that's wrong you get having so funny how many you mind telling this yeah then that's all dude I'm just he's a booth Donna yeah we do it all the conger money money and work just come come it some gold is being mined on a small scale here two digits one ripper and an investment of around five hundred and thirty thousand dollars put up by several investors it's far from the hundreds of millions invested into industrial mining by big global companies are you dumb decision you have being happens a lot on things poverty after you shall face already facilitator saving cousin Ted own dead or would share that there at all do I go no I come to enjoy this did you did have a couple it all and you don't before but together these hundreds of small minds are making the cash tilts ring like in Kumasi the country's second bigger city an entire district specializes in dealing with gold mines since they arrived 10 years ago they've invested millions but not always in Ghanaian products these pipes are from China so Gina's woman selling those adversity that was all right are you g-wagen this oh boy come on Sydney's a woman watching this oh boy this is a long beam will increase our value system TN panel akin to even woman mention volume pigma so i zoom conversion why this video track the like what I say maybe wait guys I think you guys like them [Music] in the south near the capital Accra it's time for an evening swim in the ocean we make mr. su again on the beach many here blame the Chinese minds for the environmental disaster but mr. su doesn't see any alternative my granddaughter who can holder RISM alcohol is Sam Ilana metrio father son father no why Johnna each in Tecate the Sania sujin le men chant our young jihad he gullet and each on DeSalvo soy de Jean Talladega Jame Hana Meehan and rhodomont in Ravello whole aquadolls onion dosa but I sense Allah in Ghana gold mining is changing the country in the hope of leaving poverty behind the garnon's are paying a heavy price with the vast destruction of their natural heritage only strong government action and less destructive mining methods can stop resources being plundered at the cost of future generations but will that change come in time you

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Id: A9QzwKjMNsc

Length: 25min 0sec (1500 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 15 2016

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I thought only white people did stuff like that.