Your diamond you've all heard, probably seen the movie Blood Diamond.

The first tunnels date back to 60 B.C.

So what do we do? We call up the doctor of dust, and there is such a person.

Bitcoins are generated all over the Internet by anybody running a free application called a Bitcoin miner.

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In 1849, in that Gold Rush, they took over 700 million worth of gold out of California.

Shipwrecks are perfectly preserved.

All harvesters running smoothly.

But he got great terms on it.

You also have a buffer zone that's 17 square kilometers.

Gerty, what is the status on Harvester 3?

This is how you farm oil.

Construction is the most hazardous job.

Harvesters are fine.

In my time, where I come from, this is a simple mining vessel.

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I know about the dig.

Global demand for wind has really increased desire to find neodymium.

And as we sit, exchanging free ideas with each other, there are still people mining coal in order to power the servers, extracting the minerals to make all of those things.

They locked all the exits. Who's looking after the harvesters?

Tungsten carbide drills! What the bloody hell's tungsten carbide drills?

In Alberta people work nonstop, 24 hours by seven to extract as much oil as they can.

Energy Return on Energy Invested.

We need to focus really back again on the molecules.

I'm just passing the last of the harvesters. Looks like John.

Here's from Big Sur, like they're little jewels.

Near one of the stalled harvesters...

He was loaned to us by a mining company.

Because you've got to include the man who grew the coffee, which was brewed for the man who was on the oil rig, who was drilling for oil, which was going to be made into the plastic, etc.

Trapped underneath the boreal forest and wetlands of northern Alberta are these vast reserves of this sticky, tar like bitumen.

There are regulations that it's prohibited to do logging, mining and poaching, specifically.

Great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls.

This is incredible!

You had an accident out by one of the harvesters.

Video That's what we call the seven minutes of terror. So the plan is to dig in the soil and take samples that we put them in an oven and actually heat them and look what gases will come from it.

That's what the property was originally built around it was a set of mining claims.

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But we only have two working harvesters now.

These are the Athabasca tar sands, and there's an enormous amount first of mining, the largest trucks in the world are working here, and then you've got to pull out this black sludge, which is basically oil that doesn't flow.

When I met him, he had been working in the mines for 14 years, and the leg injury that you see here is actually from a mining accident, one so severe doctors say his leg should be amputated.

And this is just one of a number of mines, 10 mines so far right now.

So these in situ developments are at least as ecologically damaging as the mines.

But you know, Watson is growing up fast.

We found out that we could go to the source rock, which were the carboniferous shales in the basins.

There was no one in the mine when it blew up.