Gold Mining in Kenya: Supporting Local Miners & Reducing Mercury Use with Shaker Tables & Sluices
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- Join us on two trips to western Kenya in 2018 and 2019, where we visit small hand-dug gold mines and work with local miners to improve their practices. We donate sluices and set up a shaker table to increase gold recovery while reducing the use of mercury, a toxic substance commonly used in small-scale mining. See the dangers and challenges faced by women and children involved in mining and learn about the risks associated with working underground. This video provides an educational and eye-opening look into the world of small-scale gold mining in Kenya.
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Dude this is right along those lines of: give a man a fish: he'll eat for today; teach a man to fish: he will eat for his lifetime. Well done ol chap.
Charge a man for a fishing rod that needs constant upkeep and sundry ancillary equipment and you profit of his fishing forever.
Mining the miners, so altruistic.
@@74KU ...and the altruistic alternative is what?
He ain't teaching them shid!
How is he teaching ?
When you grow up and turn white then you can too have this device I have Infront of you ! They been digging pot hole mines thousand acres to sell dirt cheap the cranberry gem stone very rare and beautiful but we keep them poor so pillage all of the wealth comes easy and why he's showcasing people as he is some how giving !
No disrespect to brother but I see them teaching him but maybe I'm viewing it wrong or incorrect.
@@endofunk2174 get your own gig to leach from and document?
Truly appreciate your "Stop Mercury" initiative. After reading about and seeing gold recovery in old gold mines in California back in the early 70's, I was reminded of that with some of your previous videos and had an Oh-No moment thinking of the health hazards people [mostly unknowingly] endure to make a living. Thanks for trying to make a change.
I have a picture of a ghost on a tv.
Yes , you right about mercury been very dangerous for people, but also some people created inmune and eventually past this to their children's, that is the reason that everyone have a different inmune system, like for example, I am Puertorrican, born and grow up in the island and few years ago I finding out that they make a DNA text to every different people in every country and we the Puertorrican have the best DNA , and I wonder why , and I realize that are ancestors ( Taino Indians) are decent from the people that coming down from the north pole went the Ice ege like thousands and thousands years ago , meaning that Puertorrican probably have a strong inmune system because that.
@@ralamo65able thats not how that works, immune system fights against bacteria's ,virus and cellular matter, not none organics, heavy metals cant, and will poison. your body will not fight back from it, it takes 10-50 or more years for it to cause an effect. please do your research before Making misinformation.
also to your linage... yes, and no, same as mine... i would say, any ones lineage, that has less technology advances, have way higher immune systems, because there not helped with vaccine and medicines, if ur just talking about the immune systems, but if we were talking about, the longer ur linage went with out Proper medical assistances, and technologies, that supported such health, you will have a stronger immune systems, but that dos'nt mean that it will save you from, strong viruses/diseases... Always something out there bigger or stronger, that wants to kill us, even if its a microbe.
Wow. Excellent episode Jason.
Let's hope we can all appreciate how easy a life many of us have.
yea, just go where its warm and you never have to worry about a cold winter. in jamaica they live very relaxed, and simple life, too! its not just africa
@@yoshtg Places without a winter tend to have dangerous animals and insects, so that's bad, besides the malaria. "The estimated number of malaria deaths stood at 619 000 in 2021."
@@markae0 All the spiders, and deadly snakes too that could kill a person!
Minning for gold is not easy, I know this cause I have been doing it for about 10 years now. It seems easy, but it is Hard work.
For clarity, I'm not implying that this is easy life, I'm trying to highlight how easy a life most people have without doing dangerous back breaking work.
" I am very proud" This was so much quality, such a smile on my face. I too am proud of the cameraman, and inspired by the workers.
I think you are awesome for helping them in Kenya. Mining without mercury will benefit them greatly and help the environment. Great job. Thanks. ✌️👍😎
Nice compilation of your former work Jason. I spent about 5 years mining in equatorial Africa in several different countries and always found the locals at the mine site to be wonderful human beings. Bandits on the road or shysters in the cities were a different thing. One alluvial diamond mine I worked at had an issue with artisans who were 'Grandfathered' on the licence. I drilled off the river to the south of us and proved that the placer went well west of our boundary so I took a few of the senior village gents out and showed them exactly where the survey line was. I waved my arm and said that 'all of this is open to you.' They dug a crater the size of three football fields in about six months and brought me most of those diamonds to buy from them.
This is active environmentalism. Not environmental activism. It's great to see you doing positive work to end mercury pollution in other countries.
It's heartbreaking to see how hard these people work and what poverty they live in. I pray to God their life improves.
Jason this is great dude. What a legend. You have forever planted an awesome memory in those folks in Kenya.
Very fine representative for us in Kenya. The respect and personal interest you showed in the people was awesome.
Such incredible people! I love how they find a problem and fix it immediately with what they have on hand. No waiting for a prefab trough for two weeks; they find a solution right away and implement it. It's good that more environmentally friendly/health friendly methods are being phased into their operations
I agree. I lived in the Virgin Islands. The people used to fix things. It was amazing what can be fixed with little to nothing. I learned so much there. It helps me now. It’s too bad that things are made to throw away now. I am a classic car / hot rod mechanic. I always try to fix things first. I’ve been told that I’m magic.
Cam, that was the third or fourth time watching a video about the people who mine in Kenya. I was also amazed at their simple, but amazing, ingenuity. Beautiful people who are caring and community-driven!
Great video Jason!
I’m amazed every time you show mining. The amount of work required just for 1 gram of gold. And we can buy it for an hour work at a desk. I was horrified to see Mercury being burned and in nitric bath in open air next to onlookers.
So thankful to you Mr Jason to learn that you visited my country Kenya and more specifically Western Kenya where I'm coming from to share your knowledge selflessly, Be blessed abundantly 🙏
The SMILES 😃! 42:18 Magical
From the children to the miners to the women working in muck and dust. All smiling. Lovely to see. Thanks Jason!
Hardest work ever yet they are full of joy
Thank you MBMM LLC for helping Kenyans mine without poisioning themselves with mercury vapors and through dermal absorption. Spreading that good old USA spirit. I commend you!
The people of Kenya rock...God bless you for helping them, Jason.
Dangerous is an understatement, mad respect to the man who feeds their families by risking the only thing they have, and thats their health and their life. bless you
Amazing! Better than most made for tv reality shows right here.
Jason: you hit the jack-pot with this vid. !! Glad to see you involved with Mercury free mining tech. Look forward to see more follow-up with your trips "Back to Africa". Three cheers from the PNW contribution.
Wow that is eye opening. Such hardship for whatever they can scrap up. Seeing how the lady handled the mercury bare handed like that and burning the mercury off in open fire...they must know the danger right? Just another day of surviving. Thanks for showing this and helping how you can.
Scary to imagine how sick people can get working with murcury. You are saving lives my friend.
These guys are impressively hard-working and innovative. Much respect
WOW! Thank you for showing this and I hope that they were able to see the difference in your products efforts could make for their lives.
When I was in the Navy, during and after the first Gulf War (1991-92), we stopped in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I walked through a mall in Dubai, and I saw shops even bigger than those in this video, with even more gold jewelry. It was just as astonishing then as it is now.
Thanks for an on-site gold extraction and you helping them collect there gold with out hurting themselves or the environment
Thank you so much. I'm glad someone is doing this, mercury is so easily avoided with the proper techniques and knowledge
You set the bar awfully high now for videos to come, thank you!!
I've only gotten through about 25% of the video, but I'm really enjoying it. Thank you for such an awesome first look at their process. Thank you for helping them to step away from the use Mercury. Now back to the rest of the video.
What a great watch and educational in so many different ways. I love your goals of reducing the usage of mercury, and other toxic chemicals all while empowering individuals. Thank you for taking the time and sharing this with all of us Jason.
In this one trip, you gave these people so much wealth.
Being from Kenya It's great to see you extend and share your Gold mining expertise. I have been following this channel for a long time.
Loved being underground mining caving most of my life underwater cave diving it didn't occur to me to be frightened or clostrophobic. I enjoyed exploring all of adventure until one day I was working in the Forrest surrounding Perth's south Western Australia we were called for a RED ACTION meaning a Forrest wild fire 🔥 34 hours later on a 4X4 Tanker working the bottom flank with a Dozer putting in a fire break when the wind changed direction and now we were directly in front of the wild fire completely out of control.
We hunker down in the truck spreading woollen blankets over us,I remember having my life playing out and every emotion being revisited how I wished I had said I love you to my parents more and this lump in my throat that I couldn't quite swallow, as the fire burned over our truck I was at peace. Our mirrors were burnt off and everything got scolded but we lived. I definitely made the changes in my life that were more important to me. Some things turned out great Some didn't sa la vi
I hope you get a sponsor to do this. This is LIFE SAVING
You are a long way from Washington state my friend. I loved that you are teaching them mercury free mining. See the whole operation in Kenya was eye opening to say the least. Hard workers no doubt. Makes me appreciate what I do have more.
i love how quickly they began to create upgrades for the table. i imagine they would also be able to create one on thier own very soon. i cant imagine how much has beem lost in the sluse colection ponds.
I really hope this goes viral bro this was a great documantary. Eye opening.
I'm pleased you are helping them upgrade their milling practices. what a spooky and dangerous place to work, mercury above and undermechanized underground. Just like mining was practiced for thousands of years before modern technological advances. I hope they manage to upgrade their practices. The cobalt mining in Congo by big tech is unhuman. At least these people are doing what they can to improve. Good luck and keep up the help.
You are making a big difference in their lives . You have done a great thing . I hope you feel good on the inside . It makes me feel happy knowing there are people that truly care for other people you are one of those people that truly care . God bless you and your family plus your friends
Excellent operations Jason! 👏🏻 Thank you for helping to keep the environment safe, brother! ❤️ you 🪨 🎸 🤘 ✨️⛏️
The truth is he is helping himself sell his equipment and collecting all this detailed information from source to import point for well known reasons (nothing to do with the welfare of these poor ppl interest, rather to be used by other organizations to shut down the operations or use it to sanction the country and harm the whole population. Are we allowed to go to this man's country filming ppl and asking all such question. I don't think so.
@@shalal8746 Mercury exposure at high levels can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system of people of all ages. High levels of methylmercury in the bloodstream of babies developing in the womb and young children may harm their developing nervous systems, affecting their ability to think and learn.
@Shalal not sure what you're getting at, but when you're burning mercury off 3' from a young kid, it is not good. The machinery works! I'm thinking the health of your people would matter...no?
@@Pa.PatriotProspecting You know exactly what I mean. Every goat in the field knows the danger of mercury to the ppl and the environment. Who produces this harmful substance and profit from selling it to these ignorant ppl? Why is it not banned or restricted like drugs, weapons and other dangerous substances? The intention was about collecting data and selling equipment. I never heard any advice been lend to these ppl, or even telling them about the dangers of Mercury because they don't care, they came for another reason.
@Shalal you're reaching... I get that you may feel threatened by someone trying to sell something, but its beneficial for the safety of your people. That alone outweighs the costs immeasurably! Stop being so mad, help stop the polluting the world with poison...be better!
Having been in these countries I would say you are someone who has increased their way of life.
Thank you for sharing this. I hope that the miners adopt soon and can stay off the mercury in the future.
Absolutely an amazing video. Your depiction of the gap between the haves and the haves not has very rarely been shown so well. Thank you for working to bring the technology of today to people who only know how things have worked in the past and have not been shown there is a better way.
"Come on down in the mine. Don't worry!"
Thanks for posting this Jason - Incredible video!
Jason, i want a shaker table can you help where i can buy 1 please.
Awesome project. People really shouldn’t poison themselves to get the gold. Get rid of the mercury process.
Love the use of crushers and sluices 👍
Thank you for caring for others 👍
Wow, thank you for helping the Kenyans mine gold without toxins, and lifting their production, for food and necessities
Jason, thank you for sharing a riveting, spellbinding, and educational experience in the gold fields of Kenya! The primitive ways of mining make me look like a lazy person! Or maybe, spoiled rotten? Either way, thank you for sharing your shaker table and sluices with the miners. Just think about how much gold they have lost through the years. This equipment will help them tremendously and bring some ease to back-breaking tasks. Don't even get me started on the mercury use!!! As an RN for 30 years, there has been a case in which a patient almost died by mercury poisoning. The BP meter was broken... no one knew. Every time the patient had her BP checked, tiny balls of mercury ran out the top and onto her bed. The point is that mercury = increased chance of poisoning every time it touches your skin.
Excellent experience, I am from Angola and I been watching the channel for while, and pretend to invest in one of your machines in the future. Wish you sucesses!
Eye opening to see how people in another country live and work. I mentioned to my wife that no one looked unhappy, even though they were working in conditions most of the people I know would dislike. The gold shops in Dubai were over the top. I have never seen so much gold in one place, except maybe Ft Knox?
What a great learning of other countries on how they mine for gold👍
I love the Kenyans bubbly spirits and smiles. Hard working and creative mindsets are inspiring!
I must SERIOUSLY acknowledge the Goldsmith's creatine talents with all that jewelry at the end of the video! Every single one of those pieces that I saw was nothing less than a masterpiece of creativity and talent!
I would have sat here glued to my seat for two or three hours if I could have seen them make some of that stuff! Whereas most of us are focused on where to get how to find and then process, etc.
Thank you for the great video!
Great video Jason. Helping small scale miners is great. Helping them get away from mercury is even a bigger thing the impacts on their health. Great karma Jason good work.
What an amazing piece of story. Honestly I'm from Kenya i love this man Jason, he has great heart. As a Kenyan and on behalf of Kenya say thanks to this
Thanks for visiting our country ❤️ and helping our people, lots of love
Jambo Jason....thank you for helping the poor people of Kenya.....they are truly a deserving bunch of hard working people.
Thank you for sharing that, Jason! It was fun to watch with my morning coffee, and the people are so amazing! They're so ingenious and were soaking up everything you could teach - and I think you may have learned a thing or two as well 🤯 I look forward to seeing more of your adventures, wherever you go...
This is an amazing video! The generated close captioning is very helpful here and surprisingly accurate.
These people are so friendly and open with you, I know you gave them some equipment but I think you must have a way with people.
Jason, you are one helluva Mzungu!! Amazingly fascinating and educational video. They are some seriously hard working folk in Kenya. Thanks for sharing.
I loved this video! I found you due to your collab with Dan Hurd and after watching this video I subscribed. Please please continu your work with African or South American small miners. Helping them with slicing would make a huge difference!
This was an excellent video, it gives a person insight in how things are done in the Kenya mining industry.
Great job, and a great development to the people of Kenyans, God bless you all,🙏❤🙏.
Great video.
At work I hear how hard the other employees work . But having traveled the world I know they have it made.
Even manufacturing retort for them to recover the mercury would be a huge help.
One day the Goat 🐐 Gods will smile at me and I’ll the crusher for the farm.
Keep up the great work 👍
What a gem of a video to somewhat randomly come across, the work you are/were doing is admirable and the fact there is not the slightest hint of fear in your voice even 40 meters underground in mines that no sane person would go near says a lot about your dedication to your project. THIS is how you win the respect of the natives in a hurry!!
The shots of the dubai market were eye opening as well, my lord the quantities within are staggering!
Natives? What the heck
@@thecargotsold Yes, natives, as in native to the area. I'm not sure what you're questioning here.
EXCELLENT addition to their mining equipment ! A positive step forward for them to improve their lives!
Get them an air compressor and drill !~
Brilliant Jason I love how you help the small people
Greatness is something, Nobility is something else. It's rarely achieved. May your crusades be safe and enthralling. Thank you Jason.
i think it‘s important that you understand, that Dubai is kind of washing the dirty gold for the normal market. Most of the people don‘t have a clue how the gold was mined and processed, and I think people should get more educated about this
This is awesome 👍 I hope this helps them become aware of how mercury is not the best or only way . I bet that would be really trusting of this if they saw you put gold into the hopper knowing you will get it back .
I am so impressed with your efforts and generous nature that you teach and offer without degradation. Colonialism has done no good to Africa and those forces are at work today. Thanks for being a big wedge in this and helping people of Africa. Those folks that claim they are from this culture that are now in USA and complain about their state should go back to Africa and attempt life as these good people live with such vigor and at such risk to themselves to supply for their families. Thankyou and God Bless!
Awesome video Jason. I really like it when we can see how things are done in undeveloped countries. I wonder about their surprise when they see how well the newer equipment works. I’m sure there are holdouts who like the old lol. I’ve seen that here. Please keep bringing us along with you to see more of this stuff. Thank you.
Wow!!! What an incredible adventure! Thank you for the video and demonstrating the real cost in human effort to mine. Fabulous!
I’ve been to Kenya and Tanzania 3 times, and loved it. There’s no lack of smarts, for what they have to work with.
Well done Jason, what a wonderful project to get rid of the mercury etc and save some lives. Should also improve the recovery and get the miners better paid.
These documentary videos are amazing! From the mission purpose to the video work . AWESOME!
Thank you for posting this video it was amazing!! Also thank you for donating your time and product to help this people out!
one of my favorite videos of yours man. Very interesting. I am sure that the people you visited appreciate it immensely.
Old habits die hard. Great work Jason. Hopefully they kick the mercury. That miner giving you his ore was humbling to watch.
absolutely amazing video, it makes me so glad that there are people like you in the world!
Thanks Jason another unexpected great video, well done.
I forget to say how wonderful it is to see people such as yourself doing real journalism. I don't know if you think of yourself in that way but you are doing journalism and it's important because few mainstream media outlets will report this stuff. The only time they mention gold mining in nations such as Kenya is when there are big protests, or focusing upon child labour. They cut this stuff down to ten minutes at most, few outlets will do a detailed report.
I never realized that Kenya was so rich in gold ore. Can you imagine how much gold they could export if they had the latest processing equipment? Thank you so much for the tour, Jason.
A low yield deposit like this, 3-4 grams per ton, wouldn't be mined in the USA or most places in the world!
Not necessarily export. Perhaps we'd prefer to keep it for ourselves, given the current economic circumstances occasioned by high inflation. Gold's a good hedge🙂
@@panyako cant eat gold
@@lostin.psychosis7080 that is a silly response to a solid economic perspective by the previous poster. Sad to be you, I guess
@B G how so? Clearly you are judging my comment from your personal standards and experiences bur how about looking at it from a war torn famine destroyed perspective. Keeping it won't do them any good. Selling it for a fair price on the other hand would be highly beneficial to the local populations. Perspective my friend. You can't eat gold
Wonderful initiative! This kind of go-getter attitude to solving problems is what Humanity always needs! Kudos to you all!!
Hi Jason..I have been following your episodes since you started...now you are not just a great entertainer..you are my Hero!! what a great job you doing!!
That was freakin awesome! Thank you for taking supplies to them. Thank you for sharing this video.
May God bless this team for helping the Kenyans, well done we need more like you in this world, bless again Amen
Amazing to see the ingenuity of people, and see how hard we work to obtain a little Gold. Great video 👍🏻
I hope he gets a new bearing, it was awesome the guy noticed. I hope this works out. A great group of people working very hard
Excellent video.... Teaching the locals and supplying them with new and better ways to extract the gold is priceless 👍🤓✌️
Wow, love what you guys are doing to help the people in Kenya with their gold mining.
God bless you for what your doing for these people
It appears you helped many people toward a better life. You and all involved did very well. I look forward to more of this type of productions. What is more impressive is that helping the people was more of a driving force than selling your products.
I really like this "Stop Mercury" initiative. That is something that can help not only people working in small primitive mining but to our environment.
I love seeing how problems are solved with so little money. Thanks for your time and efforts Jason
This was truly a great video. I like all your stuff because it's entertaining and educational, but this was even more--a big part of that is the humanity present, and kudos on trying to help people get away from using mercury! Some of that was hard to watch, speaking empathetically, and hopefully the people will see that they don't need the mercury (and have some understanding of just how toxic it is). I can only imagine how hard that was to be around those kids while some of this stuff was going on (let alone just people in general being around it) but also can appreciate that you can't just come in and start telling people "No, you're doing it wrong"--especially as an outsider. All you can do is show them, and hope they see. This was a fascinating look into not just gold mining in Africa, but another culture and how they live their lives, as far as supporting themselves and their families. Also, the one man who said his company only takes 2 bags of the 4 that that miner produced and lets him keep 2 , because it wouldn't be right to take most of it, as he has a family and has to live too, could teach many US companies something about being humane and not strictly ruled by greed. Finally, that gold market at the end was Insane, ha! Thanks again--it was over too soon for me. Peace.
The underground workings and the hand crush of the ore are an amazing part of the adventure. And the boiling acid as mercury vapor was compelling. The mechanics of the ball crusher, the condition of sluice capture....and the trace of a gold metal from the ground to sales at an amazing gold market simply have me considering my home and that condition I work and relax to daily. A reminder to breathe somehow, free of good natured poverty. I really like your aim to reduce the mercury. M.
Feather and wedges might help the miner!
This primitive engineering is incredible! Already they have adapted your beautiful sluice to their local needs. Your sluice table will greatly reduce the mercury pollution. We can only hope that they can eventually forego the use of all mercury as they learn new methods around the sluice table.
Man i loved this Jason. The guy drink the milkshake of the church. Love that guy
Awesome video, and it's such a good thing you guys are doing.
Minimum someone should be doing is providing gloves and dust masks to these people to protect them from this process. Very eye opening. Thanks Jason.
Feel free to do it yourself!
Feed a million starving Africans and end up with two million starving Africans 😋
Dude.. they don't have money for PPE gear LOL
Give us a link at the top. We can gather some masks, gloves and maybe some miners moss, all pitch in together and that’s at least a thousand bucks to help with
And pointing out that it's a bad idea to have anyone, let alone kids breathing in poisonous fumes from nitric acid and mercury.
My grandfather did work in the goldmines of the area before the war, in the 1930's. We still got a small piece of quarz with some gold in it as a keepsake.
I admire and respect the hard work of these people, but my God, they operate on such an appallingly primitive level! It's easy to see how much improvement in efficiency could be realized on basically every step. But the most shocking thing to me is definitely the handling of mercury. I've seen the golddiggers of the Amazon using the same methods and the dammage to the people and the environment is insane. Here is the thing that I can't wrap my head around, why is no attempt made to recover the mercury instead of evaporating it over an open flame into the air? These people work so hard and gain so little, there's simply too much waste of material and energy that could be money in the workers pocket with just a little bit of better organisation! To set up a cooperative would be the most obvious way to go.
I congratulate you for your effort to bring improvement to these parts of the world and like to thank you for dedicating your own time into such a worthwhile endeavour that could reach very far in regards to a multitude of positive effects.
Greetings from Switzerland!
I admire your skill at teaching a different culture and language!!! What a huge undertaking!!!!!
Thank you!!🤗