World's Deepest Mine - Gold Alchemy

South Africa's TauTona mine, real life alchemy, and Halicephalobus Mephisto. Footage from the 2012 documentary, "Down to the Earth's Core".
We have travelled into space and looked deep into the universe's depths, but the world beneath our feet remains unexplored and unseen. Now, that's about to change. For the first time in one epic unbroken shot, we embark on an impossible mission - using spectacular computer generated imagery to smash through three thousand miles of solid rock, and venture from our world into the underworld and on to the core of the Earth itself.
It's a journey fraught with danger. One thousand feet down we find ourselves inside one of the planet's most volatile places - the San Andreas Fault. Caught between two huge rock slabs, we watch as stress builds and then releases. It unleashes an earthquake and blasts us on towards rivers of molten rock, explosive volcanoes, tears in the Earth's crust and giant tornadoes of liquid metal. But for every danger, there are wonders beyond imagination.
Four hundred feet below the surface, a three hundred million year old fossilized forest, with every leaf and every piece of bark perfectly preserved. At one thousand feet down we enter a cave of giant crystals, glistening in deadly 122 degree heat. More than two miles underground we find buried treasure - gold and gems. Deeper still there are valuable resources - salt, oil, coal and iron. And over one hundred miles down we see the sparkling beauty of diamonds.
As we descend we piece together our planet's extraordinary story. We rewind time to discover how prehistoric forests became modern-day fuel. 1700 feet down a layer of rock reveals the extraordinary story of the dinosaurs' cataclysmic death. We watch stalactites form and gold grow before our eyes. The deeper we travel into the underworld the more we understand our world above the surface. A bigger picture takes shape - a cycle of destruction and creation, driven by the core that sustains our dynamic planet and makes the Earth the only planet with life in a seemingly lifeless universe.
Until, finally, three thousand miles down, we reach the core. Inside it lie the secrets of life as we know it - the magnetic force field that protects life on Earth from the sun's deadly rays, the ancient heat source that keeps our planet alive. Down to the Earth's Core brings the latest science together with breathtaking computer generated imagery. The result is an unmissable journey into an extraordinary world - full of dangers, wonders and secrets. And it's all down there, beneath our feet, right now waiting to be discovered.

[@delavalmilker]

"WE'VE REACHED THE DEEPEST POINT EVER ACHIEVED IN CGI ANIMATION!" If you're going to make a documentary about the world's deepest gold mine, can't you actually show the REAL thing????

[@Jitendra_Rawat]

Yes

[@gpgt1]

Right. Deepest point a mine goes into the planet is the kidd creek copper mine in timmins anyway. They couldn't even get that right.

[@goblinkillahd8396]

it would expose hollow earth

[@whydidimakethis4440]

do you expect them to risk their life, plus how would they even have footage of the nebula.

[@kwazhims3lf]

@@gpgt1 kidd mine "the deepest non marine point on earth" so, just a technicality. the deepest shaft from mouth of mine to bottom is approx 3000 m, whereas the Mponeng gold mine from top to bottom is nearly 4000 m.. isnt kidd mine toast now? no one wants to operate it or something

[@theshyguitarist]

What a waste. Should have just taken us into the actual mine. It would have been cheaper and looked better than this crap.

[@hans-juergenkirstein3962]

Learn to read or get your school taxes refunded. This film is about the nature of gold (alchemy) the mine is incidental. I worked at the 8600-foot level in one.

[@theshyguitarist]

Hans-Juergen KIRSTEIN What's your point? Did you read the description? It says....South Africa's TauTona mine, real life alchemy, and Halicephalobus Mephisto. Footage from the 2012 documentary, "Down to the Earth's Core" And I'm still waiting for the real life part. The video's a sham.

[@rbaleksandar]

Hans-Juergen KIRSTEIN The title's weight leans towards the expression "DEEPEST mine" instead of "gold alchemy". Most of us have seen some gold during our lives but how many have ever seen the inside of an almost 4km deep mine?! Not many I'm "guessing". The title should have been something like "Deep within the Earth - Gold Alchemy".

[@Vetadore]

+Hans-Juergen KIRSTEIN no this video is about the center of the earth.

[@lildom8600]

Harsh

[@mavhunguvincent]

Proud to have worked in deepest mines

[@justmeboorockstar2085]

I'm sure the ladies enjoyed as well! Lmao

[@angadmishraaruman5661]

Great job. Hiiii

[@angadmishraaruman5661]

Can i talk with u. I m student of mining engineering

[@noahmurphy9775]

No your not

[@angadmishraaruman5661]

Why murphy dear?

[@chrisl2915]

Tautona is not the deepest mine, deepist is Mponeng at 4.3km. Mponeng was previously called Western Deep Levels, I worked there in the mid 80's.

[@Rileyiscoolest]

Good to know

[@longjohnsilver7986]

Okay buddy, I worked too in Western Deep Levels in late 60´s. I was an overseas mining engineering student in a summer job (VCR and CL reefs)

[@DashingData66666]

wow have u seen alines their??

[@DashingData66666]

what u r doing now a days? @@longjohnsilver7986

[@johnofypres]

I worked at Westonaria late 80's . Hated every minute underground but now proud I did it to provide for my family.

[@mangethegamer]

Looks like a awesome setting for a game

[@ShashankRockerYo]

Red Faction

[@BadassBobY]

@@ShashankRockerYo ^o^^o^

[@parptot]

Said 7 years ago

[@abdullahimohamed1704]

@@parptot he's probably dead

[@parptot]

@@abdullahimohamed1704 yep, all the players are offline and he’s playing it’s just a burning memory

[@lancerichmond8636]

I was 2.7km down that mine and without the ventilation fans, It would have been unbearable. It's scary when you think how far into the earth we have dug......

[@ZachValkyrie]

I love the atmosphere for the first minute or so. It looks like an alien world!

[@boi1613]

Goofy ahh

[@SomethingtoappeaseGoogle-1024]

I like how the full documentary is recommended.

[@officialtickler]

This went from a mine to a star exploding

[@jamesmurphy2828]

Diamondminer 420 afterwards to microscopic life

[@divyaroshini1827]

am fully impressed by watching this video

[@rogerkolsson7231]

Thanks for sharing!

[@engrmabbaloch2193]

I wonder if they found a strong-hold and a mineshaft and a spawner.

[@boi1613]

Ok

[@jameshenry2457]

HEY!! I wanna hear about the Devil Worms...

[@StealthCoder967]

James Henry yeah

[@geneoluminology]

They shouldn't nick name them devil worms..how disrespectful!!! It s Rock Life ! They eat rocks.. Rock worms!! .rock tht becomes fossile..petrol and clay...also become bone..and flesh .. It s sll atoms..energy... .thry r our ancestors!! Nothing is made to b evil except human ignorance: only when we see th connection, th unity of all life as it stem from Light: gold being th fastest Atom to cool down from Light to matter!! Faithful to source..light Gold is found inside our DNA and more inside our pineal gland: Th unity Consciousness..th lovv Frequency, activates th gold in our brain: thus we becomes intuitively intelligent: we channel information From th unity field of Eternity: GoDD force'..or fuel of life...wether we see th light underground or not, it is there! We see dark only cause we r still 2 eye balls tht ONLY handle 400~700 nanometers of Light Speed... And light got no Speed limit.. Sorry folks..your Nobel prizes?? Whatever..th ONLY one who truly deserved it was Tesla..but..his books were confiscated... Too good for th peasants, th elite said!! Just like orgasms were censored by th aristocRATs..lol I hope we..today....trace th dots to see th pic ..of this unified universe.. Rock Worms..plzz.. .th origin of life.. haha.. Why despise anything?💜 Unless devil just meant ignorance.. Then we r ALL ignorants in some or another away

[@robertcook5201]

From an ex geologist, pretty good job. Much better than most.

[@ki-lezf1926]

4:40 A rumble in the distance catches the wizards attention "Wierworms"

[@txsraappraiser]

thats great, we have never left low earth orbit, but gold is out there scully

[@paulafrancesgalvin]

very interesting, thank you

[@Aerostryker2]

Real life alchemy is just called... chemistry. Chemistry is the word you're looking for.

[@theshawnkelly]

I’m not sure you understand what alchemy is.

[@Aerostryker2]

@@theshawnkelly Alchemy was a precursor to chemistry that used dogma and superstition to explain and derive results. It was very inconsistent, compared to the science of chemistry we have today.

[@theshawnkelly]

@@Aerostryker2 That's a poor description of it (indicative of your understanding towards it), but of course a major part of alchemy was turning things such as rocks or lead, into gold. The way the narrator used it as a metaphor was perfectly fine example.

[@Aerostryker2]

@@theshawnkelly Yes, and a major part of it was also the search for panacea. Neither panacea nor transmutation ever actually worked - there is no 'real life alchemy.' Now... is there any real reason you care? Or else, why did you choose start up with the ad hominems on a post that's four years old..? Just to be obtuse, I'm guessing. You must be a real blast at parties.

[@bishopelijahhankerson4982]

Informative

[@CalvinHodgson]

Yeah... I already watched the full documentary of "Down to The Earth's Core HD)". Oh look! It is on my sidebar.

[@lowpricedpaint]

Thanks

[@ronch550]

Isn't it amazing how all 94 natural elements are found on Earth?

[@xenocide1307]

Or rather we've found 94 naturally occurring elements on Earth, no guarantee that all are present on the planet or have been fully discovered. The distribution of other naturally occurring elements could be so infinitesimally small that little to none was seeded on Earth, or may have had such short half lives that they decayed long before we were aware of their existence.

[@kennedygitau7364]

Good video

[@castaway9214]

Are you sure about that?

[@aducksecho]

Mine craft graphics are better D

[@adessaotarra5612]

+aducksecho your right

[@engrmabbaloch2193]

YEAH!!!

[@_reb0og]

*HELL YEAH!!!*

[@mhairi.6p]

lmaoo

[@dylanlivingston5024]

Now with RTX

[@SamFirtle]

Sciency update, in 2017, 4 years after this video was posted gold formation was observed to have occurred during neutron star collision along with all the heavier elements on the periodic table not during supernovae. The amount of gold formed in the collision was estimated to be between 3 and 13 times the mass of the earth. Bring on the mining ship Red Dwarf to go fetch some!

[@Gator12]

So digging out rock and minerals to find rock and minerals 😂

[@nishanair3775]

Lol😂

[@jollas5958]

the video said that no one person ever gets go down this mine... I wonder. then how they'd make this mine??

[@mihapetek3418]

Michael Tonilon bacon

[@metalebd]

Hmmmm........good one

[@AnkushJangra-zl3pp]

IT REMINDS ME ABOUT IGI PROJECT 2 CONVERT STRIKE Mission 2

[@ZachRussellComedy]

Did he just say all gold originates from an exploding star? Like no more is being made anymore? That's it?!

[@sentlove]

Epic/I think it's awsome

[@timothytrudelle9245]

Funny I never new gold and quarts where found together, and I've seen it mentioned now twice in a few days.

[@92kosta]

History, here is another gold mine to make a TV show of.

[@RaySarasin]

Great video BUT I will stay placer mining lol But to each there own, thanks for sharing this cheers

[@zendonbuilds948]

That mine is deeper than the deepest oil wells here in Los Angeles. You South Africans have us beat.

[@cymtk]

Should make this mine on oculus rift. Id buy it.

[@rainingbloodfromalacerated4551]

With a mode running away from serial killer clowns or mole people.....

[@StealthCoder967]

Jip

[@dhesfelicia1197]

yup

[@idriwzrd]

What is it about man that drives him to such dangers and expenses to attain a mineral who's primary use is superficial?

[@snowflakesfell4407]

+idriwzrd it is highly used in everyday electronics, dentistry, medicine and aerospace - so not just superficial

[@Wormweed]

+Jane Doe Its mostly used to store wealth. Most of the gold ever found is hidden away. We wouldnt need to mine this much gold if we used all that gold for the things you mentioned.

[@robertmason8066]

MONEY

[@litieguai6306]

+idriwzrd nah dood primary use is alchemy.

[@genekelly8467]

Not only that, but once mined and refined, most gold is promptly reburied..in bank vaults!

[@alchemyphilosophersstone2634]

Interesting

[@313gwar]

I hid at the bottom of this mine once… My Student loans still manage to find me.

[@Lee-nu2cu]

The deeper you go,there you'll find material emancipation grill.

[@sethother8012]

Just think. If humans could overcome their fascination with yellow rocks, all this could be avoided.

[@ebifuraion932]

Yellow rock is use for resource not only for fashion trend so no

[@sethother8012]

@@ebifuraion932 Only 11 percent of gold is used for industry and is substitutable. The biggest attraction to mining gold is the price we put on it due to historic monetary reasons. Lower price would mean less extremes to extracting it. ,

[@da2ssboij216]

60° really

[@amitsharma-yo2zo]

Computer graphics...you disappoint everyone ..

[@wiserguyer]

thank you for posting this , it was very interesting .

[@ronniep777]

Lies

[@cappercorn6983]

@@ronniep777 No it was very interesting.

[@JohnC-pt1iw]

Quite a planet earth? And man came on planet earth.

[@Vetadore]

This video came from the video to the earth core.

[@jessperalta4651]

Vetadore o

[@conquest5348]

So how did we build the rails ??????

[@dorinchirchelan8873]

Wolfram, aluminium + + titan.

[@ohashi7271]

最初実写かと思いました、芸が細かいですね

[@razirox8822]

Is this a 3D ride?

[@TheRuddboyy]

With 3.9 km below South Africa...

[@R3IMYSS]

4:26 - Now I see why girls don't like uncircumcised penors.

[@geneoluminology]

They shouldn't nick name them devil worms..how disrespectful!!! It s Rock Life ! They eat rocks...rock tht becomes fossile..petrol and clay...to become bone..and flesh .. .thry r our ancestors!! Nothing is made to b evil except human ignorance: only when we see th connection, th unity of all life as it stem from Light: gold being th fastest Atom to cool down from Light to matter!! Gold is found inside our DNA and more inside our pineal gland: unity Consciousness..th lovv Frequency, activates th gold in our brain: thus we becomes intuitively intelligent: we channel information From th unity field of Eternity: GoDD force'..or fuel of life...wether we see th light underground or not, it is there! We see dark only cause we r still 2 eye balls tht ONLY handle 400~700 nanometers of Light Speed... And light got no Speed limit.. Sorry folks..your Nobel prizes?? Whatever..th ONLY one who truly deserved it was Tesla..but..his books were confiscated... Too good for th peasants, th elite said!! Just like orgasms were fined by th aristocRATs..lol

[@geneoluminology]

🤣genius observation..l only saw dune..and remembered how it scared me

[@Cobbalate]

I always wondered why deep mines are hot (3.5 km down?). Is it heat from inside the earth or is it just the natural climate just like it would get colder if you went 3.5 km above sea level?

[@Muzbearable]

it's believed by scientists to be a combination of residual heat from the planets formation, heat from the friction of denser materials sinking down toward the core and the radioactive decay of elements. The heat increases significantly as you approach the mantle at 40kms. Rock at that depth behaves differently due to the immense pressure. 12km's is the farthest human's have ever been able to drill.

[@canadiankewldude]

Yeah, so the rest is still kind of theoretical.

[@jacobklein8156]

The incredible bulk...

[@alexpearson8481]

Gold is manufactured in Neuton star events. Not supernova. Hence, the high neutron count in gold.

[@tshepovincent2395]

am living in mining town biggest gold producer in South Africa Carltonville

[@suspicionofdeceit]

How is it alchemy?

[@vithika_38]

Legends watching after 8 years?

[@dhesennaidoo1414]

I like this guy's voice its scrary😱

[@boi1613]

Ok cool

[@oonmm]

Damn! So the last thing i see and hear just before i go to sleep is "they are called Devil Worms" IM SO SCARED! D:

[@boi1613]

Ok

[@FirstLast-fr4hb]

Gold atoms are alive now?

[@Aj-FitnessBeginner]

What about #KGF_Mines #INDIA,.

[@Mossimogamer]

I love mines

[@georgerobson2463]

Until you have to work in one

[@GregoryCavill]

60' at best will make yiur skin red and possibly blister if its that temprature for long enough but is not hot enough to burn off skin. A cup of tea is about 60*

[@ozzyoswald8204]

Good evening Naked Science, I would like to use this video as a reference if you do not object. John Oswald

[@rainingbloodfromalacerated4551]

I object

[@richardreynolds9389]

Not a picture of mine. Just a simple generated video, not impressed.

[@derrickhappytree]

0:51 did I just hear him say "the rock face is at least [60 degrees] hot enough to burn the skin from our finders" hahaha wtf!? seriously 60 degrees?

[@WizDumbeats]

60 degrees Celsius****

[@derrickhappytree]

wish he wouldve specified but i guess he kinda did with his accent lol

[@hans2406]

derek wats Nothing to do with his accent. Degrees Celsius are accepted and understood nearly all over the world, bar some backward thinking people in some unnamed country.

[@tommaika9121]

Fahrenheit scale of measuring Temperatures is a failure? Is it of European Origin? YES Celsius scale sucks because temps below ZERO are conveniently freezing because IDIOTS cannot remember that 32 degrees F is the freezing temperature of water. Using the Fahrenheit scale is perfectly OK due to your frame of reference and what you are used to calling HOT or COLD !!!

[@tommaika9121]

DUH !

[@VSPhotfries]

Do cameras mysteriously stop working that far below ground? WTF is this late-90s FMV bullshit?

[@bcolorfull3913]

And also KGF

[@tkdcow9911]

The fuck are they talking about. I mine much further in Minecraft, and I don't burn!

[@killer1479]

i was thinkin the same thing!

[@ramiroromero3055]

minecraft is only a game

[@clarapriyankaalexander]

It's animated, should have been mentioned.

[@grandfathersfuddi5146]

What is the game name?

[@HeavyMetalMushrooms]

So, when you scale up the moon it fits with the earth, and based on that you believe that all gold comes from the moon? Someones been smoking some bathsalts I think.

[@suspicionofdeceit]

Nah, just some good kush.

[@sanjukumar4025]

Nice

[@sanjukumar4025]

Nice

[@LastAvailableAlias]

Why do they always put that goofy ring on explosions in space now? In reality if there was anything nonspherical about a supernova it would likely be jets from the poles.

[@canadiankewldude]

Science has discovered that elements higher than Iron cannot be created in a "Supernova". Look into Z Pinch.

[@cappercorn6983]

@@canadiankewldude shut up my guy

[@canadiankewldude]

Do you have something to dispute this scientifically documented fact?

[@cappercorn6983]

@@canadiankewldude I'm not trying to debunk your statement

[@canadiankewldude]

Sorry misunderstood. Have a great day.

[@twentyfifty5643]

Currently, in 2018, Anglo Gold Mponeng is the deepest.. more than 5kms

[@yohanmathebula2611]

South Deep mine At Westonaria 2.995 M down. Single shaft

[@mikeday62]

I do question whether millions let alone billions of years are required for these natural processes to take place. Someone probably has an over-active imagination. Such huge numbers seem way out of scale.

[@413.]

Mike Day yea fact is we don't know shit lol

[@danialzonunfela1389]

Diamond or pearls

[@darkwizard225m5]

Do you want balrogs ? Because this is how you get balrogs

[@MrOskaren]

This is painful to watch.

[@riri-gq4vu]

Hello! Can I use your video for my school project?

[@peterjaszczyk8056]

Underworld 🤔🙄👍

[@StsFiveOneLima]

@ 2:45 : Every gram of gold, even the gold in your wedding ring.... ALL of it came from a supernova. Every single atom. Without the catastrophic death of a star, there would be no gold. The atoms of gold that you, for a time, own, came from a supernova (or, also from the merging of two neutron stars, which is just as cataclysmic).

[@canadiankewldude]

Science has discovered that elements higher than Iron cannot be created in a "Supernova". Look into Z Pinch.

[@frankenscience3553]

yeah by a real life god

[@markeez2373]

I thought the Russians had the deepest mine? Didn't they also drill a hole to 40,000 feet and it closes because the rock keeps collapsing?

[@Fleabag6675]

Did he die?

[@cappercorn6983]

who

[@moldysandwich5278]

I think Minecraft looks better than this

[@engrmabbaloch2193]

That's what i was thinking.

[@sumaira8720]

ɷɷɷ I Havee Watched Thisss Movie Leakedd Versionnn Hereee : - t.co/RlKbv1hghK

[@eliozr]

ConnorCoonar LOL

[@skybeyond7423]

it doesn't

[@camkline2041]

They should be buying food, water

[@proboscideank.7069]

If they dig any deeper they hit bedrock.

[@reaf6482]

Someone going 3.9001 Indeed I have reached the lowest part of earth

[@mhairi.6p]

comment if you watch anime and what anime you've watched. (if you've watched any) srry that was random lol

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

DEVIL WORMS! then you just end it, wtf bro

[@Euellb1]

devil wha? how is this even real?

[@blaneycrabbe3390]

What-What-What?

[@k.smusic1735]

Sorry i thought this is kolar gold filed

[@ohme1645]

Well Steve can break a stone with his hands .

[@K910r82ey]

3:05

[@richardpearson7775]

your lifeline down there will be the cage.