Gold mining practices at south western China mine

AP Television Guizhou Jinfeng mine, Guizhou Province - 21 October 2012 1. Close up of gold bars 2. Close up of worker's face 3. Worker building a pyramid from gold bars 4. Various of pyramid of gold bars 5. Wide of Guizhou Jinfeng open cut mine 6. Wide of terracing on rock face 7. Mid of terracing on rock face with mineral colouring 8. Various of machines working at mine 9. Office of mine manager Zhang Maosheng 10. Various of Zhang at his computer 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Maosheng, General Manager, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company: "The gold, especially in the economic crisis, people use the gold as hard currency deposit - normally the gold remains of good value in a bad economy. At the same time, China and India - we call them the emerging economies - the people get rich and they want this decoration, jewellery and other things, and that's another part." 12. Underground in mine, worker removing security chain 13. Shot from cab of jumbo drill 14. Jumbo drill in operation 15. Jumbo drill operator working 16. Drill end drilling rock 17. Close of jumbo drill hand levers 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Maosheng, General Manager, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company: "We continue to do the drilling. We're confident we'll get more resources and those resources transfer to reserves and so further extend the mine life. So at this stage we're confident to have a 15 to 20 year mine life." 19. Engineers walking across marked-out terrace 20. Wide of terracing 21. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liao Xingen, Open Pit Mining Engineer, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company: "We have many working opportunities because there are many gold mines in China and not many people study mining engineering, So the university graduate engineers have many working opportunities." 22. Dump truck entering underground mine 23. Sign above underground mine entrance reading (in English and Mandarin) "Jin Feng Underground Mine" 24. Sign with safety information 25. Control room at gold BIOX processing plant 26. Worker examining data 27. Various of graphics on computer showing processing stages 28. SOUNDBITE (English) Zhang Maosheng, General Manager, Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company: "We always want to be the best corporate citizens. And working in China, regardless in China or other countries, we want to make sure we have the best safety practice, environmental practice and at the same time we have social responsibility as well." 29. Wide of mine, ore feed and BIOX processing plant in the background 30. Ore on conveyor belt 31. Ore on stockpile 32. Wide of crushing plant 33. Close up of rotating crushing drums 34. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Yan, Processing Manager Guizhou Jinfeng Mining Company: "First we decide where to look for the gold. Then we take the gold ore to the BIOX plant. After filtering, the product is called gold alloy. Before the last step, because we used sodium cyanide - we have to get rid of the cyanide." 35. BIOX processing plant, tilt down 36. BIOX processing plant 37. Various of toxic chemicals in tank at processing plant 38. Processing plant 39. Wide of filled-in valley, new land for farming 40. Mountains, tilt down to vegetables growing on new farmland 41. Various of fruit trees growing on new farmland LEAD IN: China recently took over from South Africa as the world's leading gold producer. With demand strong from both Chinese jewellery buyers and gold investors, production is increasing. At one mine in Guizhou Province, in addition to producing a commodity for the rich, the operators are also doing their bit for some of China's poorest by creating level farmland for them to grow crops. STORYLINE : These gold bars each weigh 14 kilograms (30 pounds) and cost a small fortune. Crops are already growing on the land. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7defd6f4a82e368ec0723e193eeecc83 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork