Almost every gemstone in the world can be found in deep underground pits in Sri Lanka, a country renowned for its colored sapphires. But mining is dangerous for workers and harmful to the environment.
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Inside Sri Lanka’s Deadly Underground Mines Filled With Rare Jewels | Risky Business | Insider
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They mine some of the world’s most expensive stuff and they’re below poverty???? The world is really unfair
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These men do this work for peanuts while the consortiums who purchase the material they mine are the big profiteers. Its the Sad reality of the current paradigm.
This kind of work for 3$ a week….man. Its either this or move to a disease infested overcrowded metropolis. Education is the enemy of poverty
The “Gem Authority” is likely the real enemy here. A regulatory agency that is likely completely eroded by corruption and probably allowing the monied interests to pay the workers $3 a week while working with profit margins in the 1000x range.
How much did the person who found the “Star of Adam” in the mine get paid I wonder?
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I would love to buy rough gems for cutting. But I would rather not have all the money going to the middle men. I would like to change the miner's life.😊
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It would be really easy to just pay these guys a good wage. People are greedy. It's a lesson for us all.
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imagine find a stone and give it to the mine owner 🤔🤨😂😂😂
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Poor country's economy causes hardships on its citizens
Governments are stewards of the people they administer but due to different bad governance, what goodness, helps, facilities, benefits and comforts which the citizens should have are BLOCKED and people suffer like this. It is all because of Bad Unfit Selfish Leaders and Governance. Look at the affluent countries, they too have one brain, two hands and two legs, the only difference is how they do things and how they think for their citizens. May this CURSE be removed from all such countries !
There is no need for a government for the wild animals or for plants. The government is needed only when and where there are human beings.
The funny thing is, the people who run the government come from that same community and society but they forget their own people, how extremely bad this is
What a riskey work!
What a shiytte place to live they’re so poor it’s awful. Their blood, sweat and tears gives them a gallon of milk per week… and me, a shiny rock at best. get visas people we’d love you to come and help boost out American economy and our way of life. May gif bless you and your families too
May you don't believe me but in my country Iran Those gemstones exist in the plains on the ground, you don't even need to create a mine. Just spray water on the stones and the colors will be determined and test them in front of the sun !!
Does King Prince Charles 3rd have any of these on his helmet? 👑🤴
Not valuable if you re the minor
You can find sapphires and diamonds and a lot more in areas of Australia in shallow fields and they are the same colours. Heating poor gems is called cooking and they are no longer natural. So I would rather dig down a metre to find better quality gems and not risk my life.
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I don't see any woman working there who want equal pay
Its the same story everywhere. Poor parents putting all their money into their kids education, only for them to grow up and discover that there arent any jobs available. 😢 The education industry gets fatter and fatter by printing worthless certificates.
❤Nice documentary ❤
It’s like being a fireman!
This is a very nice video and thank you so much! ❤ But it is not true that mine workers get such a low pay. This weekly amount is given only for their weekly expenses. They are entitled to a share of the profit when they find gems. It is divided as a percentage. This is a customary law and this is how it has operated for generations. It is a gamble because if you don't find gems, this is all you get. There is no concept as salary in Sri Lankan gem trade. Only a very few workers work for daily labour and their daily wage is more than the amount stated ($3). Those who are paid weekly are usually shareholding workers. But it is very true that the middleman earns the most. Most of the time, even the gem mine owner doesn't make so much money compared to the middle man. And there are a few layers of middle men before the gems reach the final buyer. Most of the low layer middlemen nowadays started off as mine workers.
So would appreciate it if you get the facts right about it. If you have any doubts, you are most welcome to visit again.
The voice over is definitely an Indian woman
mining y64 all day
All these gems are useless garbage
Hi im from sri lanka and yes they work so hard to make money our electricity bill is 9900
Now this is hustling
Yeah but thanks to all their risky Business they're not the ones making the money
Thank You Very Much For This Valuable ❤ Documentary. Highly Respect You ❤
What an over sensationalized video, Mining is hard everybody knows this but it's fascinating in its technical factors and for how impactful this craft is. Why do these pretentious documentaries always portray workers as if they are some sort of monkeys? It's an honorable job that they take pride in they make far more than what is projected by these greedy 'sympathetics', using some horror fantasy ambient music and trying to look down on these workers. Infact people who make these dumb documentaries are the bleeding heart out of touch incompetent fools with superflous jobs. Classic white man syndrome.
Those who would do good, please be careful. Yes, their working conditions are horrible. But, if you clamp down on the operations and take this away from them, the poor will have nothing. Whatever you do, be sure that the poor have something.
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Give them a efffin pay rise you rip off jewlers!!!
Your life is worth more than any gem stone.
It's too bad these channels always try to denigrate industrious people to appeal to their virtue signalling audience and of course their own profits.
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totally inhumane working conditions, while those that sell it overseas earn millions
I don’t like this hyper realism Minecraft update
Thumbs down for using pounds. Use metric units.
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