Mines in the Philippines are deadly mud traps. 360 video

we are in pas de calais which is a town in the coastal province of camarines norte which is about 200 miles southeast of manila and this is one of the many places in the philippines where one can find a gold it's actually considered a gold town and you can see here how it's actually done i'm going to try not to kill myself now there are about 20 underwater tunnels here some have already been used to maximum capacity so they're moving further and further but how it works is basically they have divers going in there we can see divers going in there in the mud in the water by using a plastic tube which is connected to a diesel fuel compressor I believe it isn't working now but basically this is a team so those at the top are helping the guy who's going underwater he's gone underwater he can't see anything he's feeling for rock and mud and then he's filling up the bags with it listen it to the surface his partner ropes it up and then they break it down there we can see how they're breaking it down for example and then they sift it through here and actually sometimes they use a banana leaf to do that because it gets stuck in the crevices but that's how they break it down are you planning to go down you're going down so now we get to see how one person goes onto the water now the reason this can be dangerous is because basically the the tunnel could collapse or the compressor could fail and the divers are there for about it can range from anything from one hour to four hours and they do shifts of eight hours now everything that you're seeing right now around our old mines that maximize that so there's nothing they can do here and they just leave it like that it can be quite dangerous because anyone walk in here could literally fall into one of the pits I'll just leave it here for you to be able to see everything around you hello even though all this is illegal it's still happening and even though the local government is trying to control it sometimes I turn a blind eye because this is the only way locals can make money and put food on the table actually I met a boy here the other day who told me that even though he's one of the few that who does go to school he from school that day because his family run out of money and food and there was no way that he could make money otherwise it was only about nine years old so we can see a chip panning for gold hello just checking out Rob seeing if there's anything more here hello what do you do show me some people say that they get about 8 grams a day when it's a good high season that could get 50 grams of gold and one shift and actually all this some of them work 24 hours a day so not only are they in mud so they can see but literally it's pitch dark so eventually all of them will be moving further and further already you can see the old site there are dogs absolutely everywhere some people even live here let's have a closer look a user feed this is how once they lift the mud from ending the rock from under thee they dilute it with water and then sift it with their feet and after that they'll pour it over the banana leaf which I showed you earlier [Music] oh there's actually a tunnel that's either it's already been used or they will use it for the new underwater tunnel I think it's used but this is what it looks like this is what they build and then they put that under the water so basically in the beginning the diver will go through that and then it will just open up into a bigger line okay I'm not sure I can get out of here now [Music] let's see what's happening here actually product Allah I was told it means canal vigor and actually the first goldmine here was discovered in 1626 a little interesting facts for you and I think I can get through there but let me see I can show you what these guys are doing hello well there we can see how some people are sleeping taking a break siesta oh okay I'm not giving you the full tour of this life okay let's see words busier here what's happening there we go panning for gold we'll get to see the gold that's left at the bottom then we see the goal the goal there we're okay we're wait the divers get more money because obviously the risk is higher whereas the helpers and those who pan for gold they get a little bit less most times it's double the divers that it [Music] huh just goes there for Gramps oh no no four four four pesos a little bit of 400 years 400 pesos okay and how much did you find today how much did you find today but so far you don't know you haven't done it you have a plan for all of us yet I see okay thank you [Music] all right so basically in a nutshell this is what small scale gold mining using compressors looks like there we go

Channel: RT Documentary

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Keywords: RT, Russia Today, RT Documentary, documentary, filmmaking, producers, Philippines, Asia, children, child labour, gold, mining, mines, shafts, illegal, health and safety, 360, panoramic, VR

Id: DO0JeIYic7o

Length: 9min 9sec (549 seconds)

Published: Thu May 04 2017