Immediately strikes an abundance of people, with 80-90% of them either resting, or chatting, well, or unoccupied by any work. Only a small group of people work diligently, and after working for a short time stops. Laziness among the blacks in the blood. From everywhere you hear a hubbub, fun, laughter, work more like a party than hard labor.
Before we were led to the mine, there was a small hitch, I suppose that there were still children working there, but they were sent out early. This is just my guess, I can not say for sure.
This is the general plan of the quarry. In the left career, mainly women work, but in the right men. Men perform more difficult work - they throw gold sands on the device, which is connected to the water pope.
The device has a sprung bunker where sand is thrown, which is shaken by muscular guys. The pump pumps water from the puddle and blurs the sand and carries away light particles that do not contain gold, and gold settles on rubber mats called "Canadian moss."
Most of the people on the career are busy about this:
Everywhere the leaky sleeves of the pumps are stretched, water from everywhere, the hoses periodically jump off the baits and fountains are formed, which amuse a lot of those around. Fountain!
This guy twisted rags and smeared them with clay, and then hoisted it all on his head. Why would a hussar have such a hat? I do not know, maybe she protects his head from the heat.
Women have a lot of patience and accuracy and less power (although looking at African women, I would still argue who they have stronger here, women or men) and that is why they are entrusted to bring in the trays concentrate, settled on the Canadian moss. They are engaged in this work in the left career, In order not to interfere with the peasants, and the water in their career is more turbid. If you look closely you can see that they have plastic bags on their heads, you can see the dirt from the hair is difficult to wash.
Babons. Instead of special trays, ordinary basins for washing clothes. Although they sometimes come across, if you look closely: In my opinion, one of them is even pregnant.
From large stones the ground is separated with the aid of such a high-tech device. It is curious that throughout the country I saw everywhere the same design of this rinse. Apparently one person (I suppose that most likely white), for lack of the best materials at hand on his knee, designed something similar, and then the Africans began to mindlessly copy this design, as if the Chinese cars and equipment. And they also copy the iron devices for gold washing and do not seek to improve them even once.
When the concentrate is washed on the device and brought to the tray by the diligent hands of black women, gold is separated by mercury. Mercury coalesces pieces of gold, then it is evaporated on fire, and only gold remains in the form of such balls. They are heavier than lead. In this form, it is sold to re-sellers. I do not think that they affinity it in their own conditions or smelt ingots.
That's what gold looks like when it comes to fine tuning. (I already washed it)
As a specialist, I will briefly tell you that everything is done absolutely wrong, after such working out there are a lot of undersized gold. Labor is low-productive - imagine how much you have to pay salaries to all these workers? Quarrying is extremely illogical, the rock mass moves twice and there, which leads to a loss of time for the money (washed sand and efel merged and siped back to the quarry from where they move out of the quarry). At times cheaper to use excavator, and industrial equipment and disperse all these idlers. Rather, they certainly are not loafers, they just do not know more technologically and correctly working out. Very likely missing a lot of goals. I'm sure 200% that if you repeatedly wash the dumps of these handicraftsmen, you can still get a lot of gold.
Gold. ... Perhaps the most useless thing in the world!
An element born in the hearts of dying stars. How many workers will fall ill and die from malaria in the tropics, and from tuberculosis and cold in the far north before it is extracted into the light of God? Who knows what sea of blood was shed and still will be, people, in the whole history, in attempts to appropriate a piece of the yellow devil? More than one TV show will be removed about Alaska, Gayan and other places and will show on Discovery a supper office plankton. And in the end what? Most of it will be put in deep storage, where it is most likely to push the world economy, another part will be the decoration of the ring finger of men and women who unsuccessfully put on rings as a sign of the union of hearts. And only a small part (10%) of it will go for really necessary things - medicine, industry and science. It does not make people's lives better.
