Extremely Deep: Mining for gold

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Extremes month continues, and this week we're going extremely deep; Chris Smith takes a trip to one of the world's deepest mines in search of gold. Plus, in the news, the GM mosquito that wipes out its own population, and would you return a lost wallet if you found one? We hear which is the most honest country in the world, and who's the least honest. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science and that is to say physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:17.0	Hello, Extreme's Month continues, and this week we're going extremely deep.
0:22.0	It's seriously fast already though my ears are beginning to go.
0:25.0	Yeah, it's because of the...
0:27.0	You're dropping from sea level to below sea level at high speed.
0:30.0	People pay a lot of money for a ride on a fairground.
0:33.0	We go on the very ground every day.
0:36.0	I take a trip to one of the world's deepest mines in search of gold.
0:40.0	Plus in the news, the GM mosquito that wipes out its own population and would you return a lost
0:47.1	wallet if you found one we hear which is the most honest country in the world and who's
0:51.9	the least honest I'm Isie Clark. I'm Chris
0:55.0	Smith and this is the Naked Scientists. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered
1:00.5	by UKfast.co. UK.
1:03.0	The first up this week you will have heard lots of stories about these things in the news
1:14.8	The zeka virus and its potentially devastating consequences continues to spread
1:20.8	And based on the number of humans that get killed every year, mosquitoes are the world's most dangerous
1:25.3	creatures, chiefly because they're the vectors for a whole raft of viral and parasitic infections
1:29.6	that they spread when they bite us. Indeed, some people even dubbed them flying
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