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Nickel from New
Caledonia
The film tells us about the
significance of nickel for our lives. It documents the consequences of
the wide-spread mining of it for the people and their environment in New
Caledonia. It shows the long way from mining and processing it to its
transformation from steel into stainless steel - from simple ore to the
adornment of civilisation.
Copper from Chile
The film shows how, despite the latest technologies, the copper ore is
still mined under very difficult conditions. The main location of this
documentary are the Chilean copper mines of Chuquicamata and El
Salvador. We accompany the copper from the veins of ore and the furnaces
to its shipment on the Pacific coast and we document its processing and
refinement.
Iron in China
The Celestial Empire is currently making the jump from the 19th to the
21st century within only a few decades. The driving forces for such
enormous economic growth are industry and the building trade, and they,
above all, need iron and steel. Today, no other country on earth uses
and produces as much of the stuff that progress is made of. Worldwide,
iron and steel prices have risen dramatically, because demand in China
continues to grow. Using the private steel company Shagang near Shanghai
as an example, the film shows how iron and steel are produced in China.
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Original language:
German, English |
