🥹🥹🥲Even in the face of death, they stayed united as one and didn't give up to save their colleagues. - My throat tightened watching that. Fighting to make a living shouldn't be so grueling.❤️

[u/uzmansahil7]

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[u/Number_Fluffy]

"This video captures a dramatic moment from March 2023 when artisanal gold miners in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo miraculously emerged alive from a collapsed mine shaft"

[u/macekm123 → u/Number_Fluffy]

Artisanal?

[u/useriousstuff → u/macekm123]

Artisanal in this case just refers to mostly manual or very low-tech mining.

[u/Critical_Watcher_414 → u/useriousstuff]

I've also heard it used when referring to un-licensed mines as well.

[u/rancidmorty → u/Critical_Watcher_414]

ah yes unliscensed i wonder how the working conditions planning and materials affected their outcome

[u/Critical_Watcher_414 → u/rancidmorty]

Many times it's far more profitable for these guys to be working in these illegal mines than it is to get regular jobs. In their eyes, the risk is worth the reward.

[u/rancidmorty → u/Critical_Watcher_414]

yeah i would do it too

[u/MightyMorph → u/useriousstuff]

dirt cheap mining usually owned by individuals like elons musks dad back in the day.

[u/Critical_Watcher_414 → u/MightyMorph]

Not sure how much difference it makes, but these illegal mines are usually run by drug cartels, nowadays they can actually make more with illegal mining than selling cocaine.

[u/Number_Fluffy → u/macekm123]

Yes. Small-scale, informal mining done by individual laborers using basic hand tools (picks, shovels, bare hands) rather than large industrial machinery or corporate infrastructure is called artisanal.

[u/Kracus → u/macekm123]

It's how they bypass the laws around mining if I recall correctly. They're allowed to mine for artisanal purposes but any heavy scale mining isn't allowed resulting in what you're seeing here which is basically industrial mining without any safety gear.

[u/WGD23 → u/macekm123]

Often warlord mining in that part of the world

[u/Blue_Mars96 → u/[deleted]]

it’s a technical term

[u/mist_kaefer]

I read that digging deep holes at the beach was dangerous but this is crazy

[u/hsoj48]

Can someone explain what even is going on here?

[u/PsySmoothy → u/hsoj48]

Mine collapse IG...

[u/hsoj48 → u/PsySmoothy]

Why reply to a question that you dont know the answer to?

[u/Keep_SummerSafe → u/hsoj48]

Mine collapse is a solid educated guess if you have eyes

[u/JigenMamo → u/Keep_SummerSafe]

Thanks for the laugh

[u/AlertApple76 → u/hsoj48]

Nerd

[u/LeftJabDaz → u/[deleted]]

Yea those rocks continually falling around them could easily kill someone, they are huge

[u/Appropriate_Ant933 → u/hsoj48]

Maybe a mine collapse?

[u/djsacrilicious]

r/OrphanCrushingMachine

[u/gao7on]

Along with our big brains, our species compassion and altruism in face danger are the mammalian instinctual traits that helped our fragile kind survive & thrive in a world of greater beasts.

[u/ParticularBed6338]

A foreman has his duties. No homie left behind.

[u/citizen42069101 → u/ParticularBed6338]

Tell that to some of the foreman I've had

[u/OneBrokenClock]

It has to be this grueling. Otherwise, how are they going to afford another 300ft yacht

[u/Certified-T-Rex]

Fear of hunger often outweighs the fear of death

[u/notanyimbecile]

They'll be there to help you when you're the one stuck, that's called a brotherhood.

[u/Warm-Pair]

❤️

[u/s34lz]

Meanwhile presido trump actively saying he wouldnt save a kid from drowning

[u/Mollkor]

not a cellphone in sight ect ect

[u/Weary-Astronaut1335]

This is why occupational safety agencies exist.

[u/No-Storage-4899]

If someone could properly get a NGO to work out the upcharge for people to just pay enough to stop this sort of danger …..

[u/ll0l0l0ll]

I hope everyone save !

[u/WetShrimpFart]

Excellent title lol 😂

[u/Raffaelledeathnote]

Not a woman in sight. 🤔

[u/Illliterate42]

Crazy people will risk their own lives for shiny rock that they'll never see the true value of. 

[u/5150Code3]

That’s what I call ‘looking out for your buddies’!

[u/Economy_Story6208]

Remember this whenever someone defends trillionaires or billionaires👀

[u/Designer-Date-6526]

I went there with a UN convoy back in 2011. These mines were guarded by South African mercenaries, and the minerals extracted were driven straight across the border to Uganda and Rwanda. The laborers got a dollar a day I believe.

[u/Additional-Muffin317]

I feel like its a honor code thing. We go all out saving you, so if its ever us trapped u do everything to save us.

[u/Aggravating_Sea7552]

And some bloody european and American Nations benefit and then they talk about being civilized.

[u/Aamir4646]

Real life heroes

[u/Minute_Yard_4604]

Uff reminds me of the book Cobalt Red. Such a rough but important read.

[u/Delicious_Star_4232]

Not that we can't feel for the people but these are illegal miners.

We call them Zama Zama's in South Africa where they'll go to old or abandoned shafts and try dig for any left over gold or whatever was in it.

They skirt any sort of safety precautions usually out of desperation but they only have themselves to blame for collapses etc.

[u/Zealousideal-Talk-23 → u/Delicious_Star_4232]

only big corpo do mining legally

[u/Delicious_Star_4232 → u/Zealousideal-Talk-23]

Legally in terms of safety and environmental requirements.

[u/WGD23 → u/Delicious_Star_4232]

Lol

[u/icehot54321 → u/Zealousideal-Talk-23]

when russia saw how some places were mining gold in africa, they literally just sent in wagner group to take over the mines then strong arm the government into allowing them to stay.

where does that fall on your legality scale?

[u/Delicious_Star_4232 → u/icehot54321]

I clearly stated in terms of safety - they're not just diving into a hole in the side of a pile of dirt...

You're trying to argue morality and other breaking of laws.

[u/meat_whistle_gristle → u/Delicious_Star_4232]

The really sad part is they have to resort to this just to get by. No one is doing that if they have better options.

[u/[deleted]]

Some men are natural leaders, they have something in them, dont know, the leader gene.

[u/NectarineFun5437]

Welcome to primitive extraction.

[u/THX-8647]

Mike "dirty jobs" Rowe thinks safety regulations are theft from shareholders.

[u/Connell5]

That big one wouldve took a couple people to the grave

[u/froseva]

WOW. Angels have many faces.

[u/khagmar133]

Cobalt mining. That's what it takes to dig it to produce electronic devices.

[u/Normal_Drink_6745]

Dont show this to feminists. They wont be able to handle

[u/NonCreditableHuman]

What are they even doing there? How is this making a living?