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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Paolo Greer. Timecode In: 00:16:53. Timecode out: 00:42:25. Notes: Huaypetue gold mining description. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Anton Seimon. Timecode In: 00:45:07. Timecode out: 00:50:36. Notes: Huaypetue gold mining description. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Tim Currie. Timecode In: 00:55:21. Timecode out: 01:07:48. Notes: translating; Huaypetue gold miners. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Teofilo Gongora Sanchez. Timecode In: 01:08:44. Timecode out: 01:36:51. Notes: translated by Tim Currie; Huaypetue mining, community and environment. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. Show: Peru Log of DAT #: 4 Engineer: Leo del Aguila Date: July 2000 ng= not good ok= okay g = good vg = very good JN: JOHN NIELSEN LD: LEO DEL AGUILA PG: PAOLO GREER AS: ANTON SEIMON TC: TIM CURRIE TS: TEOFILO SANCHEZ 0:50-6:15 AMB: ON THE TRUCK GOING TO THE GOLD OPERATION 2:41 FX: TRUCK GOES THRU WATER 3:23 FX: HORN 3 :28 FX: ANOTHER TRUCK PASSES 4:05 FX: TRUCK IS STOPPED, DOOR CLOSES, TRUCK RESUMES 5:45 FX: TRUCK PASSES THRUWATER 6:18 FX: HEAVYMACHINERYINBKGRND 6:33 FX: TRUCK GATE UNLATCES, PEOPLE GET OFF 7:30 LD: gonna record a little bit of sound back here 7:33 AMB: WATER RUNOFF 7:55 LD: that's a little bit of a water runoff ... 7:58-15:23 AMB: WATER RUNOFF THRU SIEVE 9:00 FX: FRONT LOADER APPROACHING, SCOOPING, BACKING UP, BEEPING, DRIVING AWAY 11: 19 FX: RUBBLE DUMPED ONTO SIEVE, ROCKS TUMBLING DOWN 12:36 FX: MACHINERY DUMPING ROCK 14:17-14:34 FX: FOOTSTEPS ON METAL 15:23 JN: let's ask Paolo how it works ... 15:40-16:50 FX: METALLIC DUMPING SOUND, TRUCK REVVING, HYDRAULICS (A LITTLE DISTORTED) 16:52 JN: we're on the moon. Tell me how this works. PG: ok, what we've got here is a very crude gold operation, which is very interesting to see cuz we're also looking at a satellite disk under that hut over there. What they do is they find the gold, apparently not on bedrock, they're loading these dump trucks with these front end loaders, the dump trucks are putting up above the operation here. What the operation is, we've got a double grisley, he's washing the fine gold ... JN: A double grisley ... PG: a double grisley being, you see that metal net there? JN: yes PG: and what it is is ... JN: a big old grate. PG: a big old grate. They're washing the muck thru there, not washing it very well. You need to actually clean off the rocks a lot better. It's going down over that grisley grate and underneath that, laterally coming out perpendicular, we have a kind of a rough rug underneath, in a trough. And that's where the fine gold is settling out. But because they don't have a very long grisley grate, because the gold is so fine, what we're doing here is basically blowing away 40- 50% of our gold. Its hard to say what they're getting. And yet they're doing quite well. So there must be a lot of gold here. I wonder how many operations there are like this? 18:17 JN: lemme make sure I got it right. They bring the front loader up to the edge... PG: they fill a dump truck with that loader, the dump trucks are going up on top, they're dumping the gravel JN: down the hill PG: where they've got the operation set up. Right on the edge of the hill. And as they do it, the fellow up there with a the water is washing the muck, the gravel, the gold, the rocks, the mud, thru this grisley, this metal with the holes in it. The gold, cuz its so heavy - gold is about twice as heavy as lead, not quite-say 1 1/2 times- so the gold is very forgiving. As the material washes over the grate, the gold settles between the holes and falls into the sluice box. 19:03 FX: HEAVY MACHINERY 19:46 JN: so they dump the riverbed over the top, they hit it with those fire hoses, it goes down ... (Notes truncated)
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- 22 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 22 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 22 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman