How to mine gold in Indonesia

• How to mine gold in Indonesia

Two years ago in the hills of the district of the Indonesian island of Lombok Sekotong found gold. A foreign company interested in the terrain, geologists sent those samples taken - but it turned out that gold is not so much. For business it is not economically profitable. Geologists things passed, but the home did not immediately leave. Without raising too much noise, they hired local 100 thousand. Rupees a day ($ 1 = about 10 thousand Rs.) And asked to "collect special stones in the bag and shipping bag in the truck." . Local workers first 100 thousand were glad - income for backwater o-ho-ho a, and then began to think, what, why and how. Word for word - was announced at Lombok own "Eureka!".

Not the least role in this played Saffrudin Pak, a geologist with a gold mine on Sumbawa. He was not the hero of the epic, of course, but those who have the gold rush with the first days of sick, his name intones. Including his words sekotonskie prospectors learned where to dig, dig and where not to dig up something then do it.

- I told them to keep it out into the earth, - said Pak Saffrudin. - No there is nothing under the ground. And fill up the can. On the ground, too little. But the people still do in the dry season. Here from April to December, nothing grows, so dry that the ground crack. Let the gold looking. Do not watch TV the same.

Gold in the hills a little. It in the ground a little, to find under the ground, it is necessary to dig into the depths of the mine for fifteen meters. And to go into them. For courage drinking moonshine, according to statistics every month eight people out of the ground will not be returned. Therefore, collect gold from the surface. Which is not chunks, nuggets lucky waits, and strewn with gold veins in the rocks. Do not just deal with the stones, there is a special technology is necessary. On the local language: "Pour mercury, get gold." Almost alchemy. The process only looks simple. Brought stones from the hill bag, crushed them, pour into the drum (runner cup) of water was added, the two or three heavy metal razdrobitelya generator included electricity and let the hard work does.

After two and a half hours opened, razdrobiteli pulled in the resulting mush add a little mercury, and closed another twenty minutes included.

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Next mash is poured into a bowl and begin to wash out with water from a hose.

Mercury is heavy on the bottom left. It is cooled with ice, carefully poured into a piece of fabric folded pouch, the pouch and start to rinse in water and squeeze.

If you are lucky, will remain on the fabric one or more lumps of dirty-gray color - a mixture of mercury with gold or silver. Of these, form a tight ball, and weighed.

Cherished dirty gray ball - it is not gold. Mercury amalgam must be evaporated, this heat a homemade burner as welders. Do it in the open air, on the table fenced on three sides by bamboo mats or pieces of wood nailed together in a hurry.

was evaporated mercury - got a real result. In the form of gold, mixtures of gold and silver or silver. And you can carry to the buyers-up. Per gram of gold to three hundred and fifty thousand. Rupees you can help out.

Money in the boondocks are very fond of, because they are really there was not anybody. How can earn fisherman or farmer, or rather, how much he needed to turn out that the surplus on the market could be attributed? -. When I was a girl, in a good year we have five or ten million rupees in the year before. For a family of two adults and ten children - said Ibu Sarun, the wife of a miner Pak Sadina. -. If a bad year, then five hundred thousand rupees in all.

- Before the husband began to study the gold, we have not lived. Sometimes we had 10 thousand. Rs a family to feed. But now we are not rich. The house is new, but is built not only on the "gold money". The cows had to be sold.

Ibu Sarun about her husband says he is "slow", that the way it is: "If God will give us the gold, it is not going anywhere." Brother husband Pak Sarva personal history of gold very quickly unfolded. One billion rupees earned from the first shaft and immediately began to spend. Land bought Permule and Mataram, three motorcycles, business development drums, repair in the house made a home for her son built, the wife of the market in gold jewelry went. Relied on luck, invested in three mines in Pechange and ... A year later, the money ran out, and the Pak Sarva ill much doctors said, easily damaged, and how and with what implications - is unclear. Medicine in Indonesia paid, and now the only source of income - the drums in rent of 10 thousand rupees for one use..

In the boondocks like to retell the story, but who earned gold at "a time." It turns out that a lot. In fact, it appears that gold coins are not as fast. Usually work on a team of 8-10 people. In the mines and the land on which it is located, the owner may be, then he has to pay. Earned fifteen million., Five of them the owner of ten between a share. Sometimes, of course, that these millions of the day came. And sometimes that is empty for weeks. The fact that mercury is toxic, and some of you know. Own hands in a basin of water and mercury do not climb, and evaporate the mercury does not seek. And your children are not allowed. Once the water is pouring mercury remains in a hole in the middle of the yard. Near the well may be, from which water is taken for themselves. We came grinpisovtsy, indignant, what you fools, do, mercury - a poison, and you do merge with the water directly into the ground. Here you live and your children. But about the distant future, no one thinks. Here it is gold, so they money. Here's a new bike and a new home. And that there will continue to be - inshallah. Until now, mercury in our village, no one died, and we're not going to.