| Chilean Factories and Industry: Gold Mine | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tape Master: | 4050 | |
| Catalog #: | 517456 | |
| Clip Number: | 517456-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | VN1-02 | |
| Timecode: | 01:22:31 - 01:26:35 | |
| Location: | Chile | |
| Year Shot: | 1994 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ENVIRONMENT: Pollution, Air INDUSTRY: Metal, Misc INDUSTRY/MINING: Gold INDUSTRY/MINING: Strip Mining LOCATIONS/SOUTH AMERICA: Chile LOCATIONS/SOUTH AMERICA: Mountains, Andes | |
| Description: | Chilean Factories and Industry: Gold Mine. High Andes strip gold mine in Atacama Desert. Gold being poured at mine, Pollution and smokestacks, trucks dumping rubble, more smoke stacks, furnace, WS strip mine, mountains in background. Pan retaining pool (?) amid mountains. Est. shot warehouse-type building with mountains behind. TLS dump truck driving dusty dirt road. Zoom out from stack of boxes labeled Sodium Cyanide (with skull and crossbones for warning). Zoom out from smokestack emitting brownish smoke to show more of industrial building. Dumptruck dumps its load. Another shot of the hazardous materials stored on the site (sodium cyanide). Workers in protective gear wait for molten metal to pour into molds. Containers of what seem to be gold bars in the making. WSs industrial smokestack with white smoke billowing up, polluting the air, mountains in background; various other shots of same. | |
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