Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush

Inside Ivory Coast's hidden gold rush takes a look at the gold mining industry in Ivory Coast. For a long time mining was seen as a dirty alternative to a more wholesome farming lifestyle. But some of the richest gold-mining potential in Africa is luring hundreds of thousands of Ivorians off the land and into the mines.
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[@dynamicsolution8166]

As Warren Buffet would say...during a gold rush, be the one selling picks and shovels

[@e30325ikiller]

4:00 it is not worth 50 cent

[@davidd3846]

Sad...they have so much resources but are poorest in the world

[@TalalElnadi]

David D o

[@gamo5342]

Ur wrong Ivory is in the top 5 most richest countries in africa

[@elvisarmoneking9255]

David D the sad reality of most African countries

[@nickpop4649]

The West is not innocent in the poor state of the so-called 3rd world. Just saying.

[@amirabed5652]

I grew up there, the thing is bigger countries will hear about this and bring the tech to get this going using labor from the poor people then they’ll pay them a little which in their eyes is a lot. I’ve seen a lot of businesses there that are family owned and making millions but the workers barely get anything

[@superduper9981]

Betcha the cost of that guys suit would feed a lot of his people

[@zhang_han]

bet you it wouldn't. Clothing is artifically expensive in North America, but not in Cote d'Ivore

[@pikminlord343]

what a promising development

[@user-zw4wh1tm9x]

Such a beautiful, civilized nation

[@houseplant1016]

The so called civilized nations are doing this because of their greed. You can easily stop buying gold.

[@rafiqshaikh1643]

Thanks

[@user-zo6en3qg4m]

수고하셨습니다 감사합니다 고맙습니다 고생했어요

[@uzzaaair7552]

I am in love with the coaco

[@kangrarasoi1497]

Nice video hard working people 💪💪

[@TokhBjm]

New subscriber 👍

[@darkapothecary4116]

you can't abandon your agriculture or you will always have to rely on other provinces to get your food. you can still dig for gold but when you let your people suffer, especially if you don't use the profits for your community. gold mines dry up over time.

[@mahmoudkolmahmadi5841]

Erin May کمچجح

[@Emmanuel-lo1cd]

I love my country.

[@786otto]

It is almost 2019. That's what their society accomplished for past few thousand years.

[@splitsecond190]

They will not destroy this planet with nucleat bomb.

[@missbstuurman]

Still better than Bombing the entire middle east

[@dawudhasan5960]

dumbest comment

[@billshun3963]

@@splitsecond190 wait till one day they can make their own ( unclear ) bomb.

[@freemarley639]

You should read more...

[@marktime9235]

How does this narrator manage to sound like a political robot?

[@marktime9235]

@@labadaba5088 The intonation of the narrator is boring and 'robot like'.

[@xxdeathxxj]

Na Mr.Tape is just pissed cuz he cant stick his fingers in it to make more than the little guy...

[@GoldChasers]

Greasy! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@allysoobratty7565]

How much is a gram of Gold in Cote d'ivoire?

[@AdventuresofTakuzaandMitziel]

I’m watching this because it’s my online class assignment

[@apandancerchannel7240]

Good Luck

[@1992ilikepie]

This really opened up how I think about countries like this in Africa. They're basically a century behind the developed world, but they are catching up as the realize the value of there natural resources. However I think that as they grow and experience many of the same things that countries that have already industrialized did, they will know what not to do. It's a culture of extremely hardworking people, Ithink they will prosper much sooner than most expect.

[@billshun3963]

They all needed a stabilized government to begin with the rest will fallow.

[@eminiola7131]

We need to learn how to industrialize our products

[@benlewis5312]

Natural resources (outside of petrol) no longer contribute significantly to national wealth. Africa will never be able to rely on its natural resources to make itself rich. Security, education, free trade, and transition into a service-based economy will make them rich. Resource-poor nations like Japan and Switzerland have no problem succeeding in a global economy because human ingenuity is magnitudes more valuable than natural resources

[@thebbiddim882]

As always in Africa it's the bureaucrats slowing down social and economic progress. Probably trying to figure out a way they can directly siphon of profits to their foreign bank accounts.

[@mahmoudkolmahmadi5841]

KILER SHAKA ZULU

[@fal218]

Africa needs to wake up!

[@bigboijoni4328]

Cicada sure well just suddenly become rich and have more water access and less courupt leaders

[@abednegokipkirui7761]

Repatriation is top down, economy is the other way

[@justus9651]

if they use the profits to build hospitals and roads ect , how will the people afford to pay for the hospital. Better yet , how will they eat ??? .Thats the problem, they have no substantial means of income to support themselves and their families!!!!!

justus 28 why should they pay for the services of an hospital built by the benefits of their hardwork!?

[@defcon2544]

So you're saying they will build a socialist utopia, all work and contribute and all is free. Get real, that will never happen. justus 28 is absolutely right, there is no economy, even with schools and hospitals.

[@angelicadickson8666]

Do you expect the people that work at the hospital to work for free?

[@cryptonian7706]

No shame in wearing TWO WATCHES while your people suffers

[@checkcheck1579]

one is for local time the other, for overseas time when ,they are playing the "nigerian prince" part.

[@vasiavisilievic1873]

Maybe those watches cost 5 bux apiece. you never know

[@arunpsukumaran4740]

Great

[@davidnguessan9374]

My country has gold 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮

[@nova2201]

3:42 xD

[@lassinediasana7650]

Cool

[@relentlessmadman]

wow look at the dirt! mercury in the ground water! help!

[@defcon2544]

It's the African way of mining, they don't seem to care.

[@HMDickson]

Are you OK? Mercury is very expensive and these folks watch every drop!!! They are not slinging it around like holy water! That is left wing bias that infers they are spilling mercury everywhere!!! You have mercury all over your house sunshine. You careful with it? Got a curly-cue light bulb? That is mercury vapor!!! Got a themometer, you got mercury :) Got central heat and air? You got mercury switches!!! Got a car that a light comes on when you raise the trunk or hood? You got more mercury switches! 99% of mercury contamination comes from electrical power plants and the manufacture of chlorine. That is a fact!!! You ready to give up electricity? Your old lady ready to give up Chlorox? You are far more of a mercury polluter than these people!!!

[@Litany_of_Fury]

Anyway to help them prosper

[@mdsiddikurrohman4602]

Suzon meddia

[@eliejuice5512]

"Wai a u unnin, wai a u unnin"

[@ArtCore616]

Funny part is Cacao will become VERY valuable in some decades.

[@ankushroy7022]

Era gold mine kare bole kichu bike gari kineche,kintu eakhane KC Ra dibbi Bina paisa gari kitchen,excellent,I am from One KB KC country.

[@elizabethanncole5692]

Department of Rehabilatation and Corrections

[@laurencegue2489]

I from ivory coast and I speak French

[@TravelwithSurya579]

Do you know english

[@iamltz9007]

Hello, let's chat more about this. My WhatsApp no: [phone]

[@austinhughes2161]

it saddens me everytime i see the people of an african nation speaking french. their own language is gone.

[@JHJH007]

+Austin Hughes So I presume you speak Welsh or Irish? Since 'Hughes' comes from a Welsh or Irish origin

[@austinhughes2161]

+JHJH007 im an immigrant. we moved here by choice. there's a difference. also, welsh and irish is still spoken in their respective countries. these african nations have lost their languages by colonization.

[@austinhughes2161]

***** that's because you see africa as a whole. individual colonized nations, not so.

[@princekelvin6476]

+Austin Hughes know your fact in Ivory coast everybody speak there own language French is just the common language and the offical language of the country im french and my friend is from ivory coast the country got at least 60 different different ethnicity ( mostly Dioula,Baoulé,Bété) do your research before assuming stuf like that smh if it was not for french there no way they could communicate with each other because they are not from the same ethnicity

[@austinhughes2161]

prince kelvin they could easily have use 1 of their languages as their national language. french has no place there. all other languages will disappear in time. just look at singapore. dialects have disappeared and mandarin is disappearing too. so please do YOUR research 1st instead riding your ignorant high horse.

[@pky424]

How can I believe that man saying :"I want schools built here"?????

[@kotukuwhakapiko467]

Looks like a cool way to live, camping and digging for treasure

[@erdemir5641]

hahahahaha

[@fabianbembridge7921]

mother Africa beautiful people and rich land

[@2country857]

that ringing is killing me

[@idanagali8384]

wow

[@gwest6511]

They took gold back to Europe and said we need some more..it'll make us look strong black😂😂

[@gmog7857]

Ivory coast will never ever supercede Ghana nor SAfrica in gold production, its a dream and it will stay like that.

[@PRYVTgomerPYLE]

Even though this is hard work... They are not being forced to do so. At least these are NOT blood diamonds. Ivory Coast -> Home of Didier Drogba and gold apparently.

[@samsonm95]

Most of the miners are actually not Ivoirian but from neighbor country like Burkina, Mali... They came to do such dangerous work, get some money and send some money back to their home country.

[@ahmedibrahimhassanhajiali8616]

I read about that the classical mining companies had the obligation to build roads, schools and hospitals for the host countries in addition to the wages, and operation costs. Now the scenario changed into this; labors are suffering and indemnities are lacking.

[@wanimillion7447]

What do you do.

[@missbritt288]

government should set up a proper mining operation in that region and aid the workers with modern machinery so they wont have to pollute the soil with mercury .... They are damaging the environment for the future - they should not punish the villagers for trying to make money by shutting the operation down , they should have been smart enough from the beginning to see and opportunity to make a change and invest in that regions mining industry .

[@user-go7xl6tf1l]

صباح الخير

[@JohnMwangi-jv3pp]

That's too much asking 4 an African government they want th easy way over taxing its pple

[@dedentaufik5698]

Di luar juga pake mercury ya..

[@winitdangyen333]

เอาน้ำในบ่อไปทำแห้งแล้วก็ล้างโลหะแล้วก็ใช้กดล้างอีกที่จะมีทอง หรือเปล่าครับ

[@jessedavid2418]

i have noticed on my world travles that the rest of the world does not have decent hand tools from a construction industrial worker perspective

[@Perfectcapture313]

Very tough life

[@adamthornton7880]

Given that the people doing the mining are members of the local community, I would imagine that a lot of the money being made was being invested into the community.

[@mohammedfasihuddin1047]

Adam Thornton UK

[@arandomperson3516]

4:00 where's the gold?

[@deesnoots]

Why would they stop farming which is constant money if you do it right, than hopelessly look for so little gold?

[@khadijahaffejee7742]

Those bags do not contain golg as the density of gold in the given volume is round about 19300 kg. How can a small child carry that much of weight?

[@muktarliman5399]

that cocoa

[@bananaberrysplit9431]

That is easy too .

[@RealTamimUddin]

It's sad to see that they are sourcer but they can't live..... 😔

[@joecollins1659]

One day,one day,one day.......

[@tot2600hrs]

joe collins Keep waiting. Its only been 2000 years...

[@lokipolimera952]

I have seen Daren Sammy at 1.45 from side..🤗

[@trentmatherson7431]

“Chocolate did you say chocolate” “ um... yes” “CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE”. Ha it’s a sponge bob referrent

[@asadabbas6827]

Such a civilized nation like Eurapions or USA can't see poor people growing.

[@phoonbazinga4851]

Europe isn't a nation

[@bikosteve8864]

Work on your English you Muslim dick!

[@olie171]

It's better for them not to interfere. They've done more harm than good on that part of the world.

[@banch286]

Steve Young, poor ignorant u are

[@oNeptun3]

Is that how you end up with a hunchback

[@cohoman83]

60 degress melts skin off fingers?

[@XxaLexiiSsxX]

Like ususal they want to keep all the money

[@123terricam]

they are exploiting these people. its sad

[@hotmoments4409]

You monetize this? How ironic

[@mahadevtodkar789]

Bluefilm

[@jerryh2954]

If they can't tax the miners how are the politicians going to get rich?

[@jorgesantos2445]

Costei do vidio .

[@veronicaperez4490]

If people abandon agriculture the Price of food will be high.

[@maryjohns6730]

Holly Molly

[@shonagray78]

And who is actually getting rich, from all their hard graft?

[@bigboijoni4328]

Clearly the economy

[@gracekingdom949]

I'm sure Americans will take that place

[@wtm7554]

Germinal 2.0

[@MAV44444]

I don’t know what to say... is sick

[@garundip.mcgrundy8311]

They should smoke cigars, not cigarettes!

[@aliuzun1454]

Hallo is there a gold seller

[@jeremiahfoster2757]

no that piece of gold is not worth 10$.

[@mahdi453]

I still dont know how the govt work

[@riamohammed9300]

Give them all school and hospital electricity

[@neomkwane5591]

Africa has the opportunity to exploit its potential by making sound investment decisions. The gold rush in the Ivory Coast is one such example. The country is so rich in mineral wealth that one only has to dig a few meters to encounter gold. African governments run by socialist dictators are holding Africa back. Open the markets, open Africa for investment now!

[@SuperCoolTeddy]

Europeans have plundered Africa for years.only in 1960 ivory coast got independence from France. Reason for French being official language

[@ejackson9511]

They supply the world with chocolate and gold but dont have electricity...

[@SubswithNovideossubswith-ls3bk]

Hey brotha Do you know the way

[@suman6350]

blood gold

[@nhragold1922]

That piece of gold was worth 50 cents lol

[@JunaidKhan-lg4gj]

keep in mind, 1 gm gold is equivalent to 50 USD.

[@ndorobei4391]

@@JunaidKhan-lg4gj more

[@adriandarimy]

where r their safety?

[@williamsueper8602]

Franklin Clinton where is your grammar?

[@elizabethanncole5692]

Marriam/Elizveth

[@tellodoroteos5976]

Everybody wearing gold and watching this is outwardly feeling guilt...but deep inside they don't reallly care....

[@multiverseofarj8348]

Omg

[@tariqarshad6097]

😃😃😃😃😃

[@SDeww]

4:24 he i smad cause he doesnt get hes cut, if the gold was going towards the village, he would/can fill hes pockets!.. he still probably does!...for sure!

[@mstawarz08]

That piece of gold is NOT worth about $10.

[@BonnienClydeMiller]

You can't even grow a garden! Without that first step how do you expect to have a scociety? Gold mining?

[@nigelwilliams5653]

"You can't even grow a garden"? Without what first, or, you must! you and the hold must learn to grow and have a proper Garden, in order to have a Society, a humane, society!!

[@xXCroWolfXx]

Poor them ...they are like F2P player in runscape trying to get bond

[@lequngvinhqt]

Hi colala na va de ye

[@DaviCabralUruara]

Um país com tantas riqueza,e o povo mais sofrido,😥

[@ezekielmotsoere9006]

And the West do not care, as long as they reap the rewards. They only care about profit.

[@ndorobei4391]

They are Canada and Russia with most gas and oil. And Australia and China with most gold. See statistic.

[@kadeksatriadi7845]

that guy's French is very well.

[@adamadiallo3759]

Kadek Ananta the official language in Ivory Coast is French... obviously he would speak it fluently