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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Madagascan sapphire mines
Posted: 17/02/2008 21:20:11 Reply | Quote Just watched the snippet about Madagascan sapphire mines on Tropic of Capricorn [link]. Actually seeing footage, rather than simply reading about accidents in these mines, really showed up how basic the conditions are; holes in the earth ventilated by plastic bags and tubing. The worst bit being how tiny a fraction of the wealth from the stones goes to the miners and the area. -- five suspicious looking bridges resting on suspicious looking walls with visible cracks in them... IP: 84.64.51.244 |
minerat Joined: 15/01/2008 Location: cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Madagascan sapphire mines
Posted: 29/03/2008 21:51:40 Reply | Quote HI Simon, I was looking on utube the other day, its amazing what you can find, the mining subjects are brill, aussie opal mining, saphires etc etc. youre right the conditions are appalling. thats recycling plastic bags to the extreme.  :
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carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Madagascan sapphire mines
Posted: 30/03/2008 11:05:01 Reply | Quote simonrl wrote: The worst bit being how tiny a fraction of the wealth from the stones goes to the miners and the area. Nothing new there then. If you really want to read about horror stories glance at a few articles on child labour in South American Mines. Even makes 19th century Britain look good. IP: 88.105.209.13 |
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carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Madagascan sapphire mines
Posted: 30/03/2008 12:18:05 Reply | Quote simonrl wrote: The worst bit being how tiny a fraction of the wealth from the stones goes to the miners and the area. For some reason this always reminds me of the Robartes, one of the ‘great’ Cornish families. I won’t bore everyone with the details but they started off as the Roberts family of Truro. Richard left his son John £6,000 when he died in 1593. John converted this to £300,000 (a fair bit of small change in the early part of the 17th century) by simply ripping off the miners. He lent them money and they paid him in metal so he could then monopolise the sale. Later the family bought the great country house at Lanhydrock (now A NT property) near Bodmin. They also invented a family tree and the largely fictitious heraldic scroll can still be seen at Lanhydrock. IP: 88.105.219.32 |
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