(2007-2014) There's a gold rush in Mongolia, and much like the North American gold rushes at the turn of the 20th century, it has become a capitalist free-for-all where concern for the individual or the environment takes a backseat to the profit margin. Foreign corporations have mined the Mongolian land, but now up to 50.000 rogue Mongolian nomads, known as Ninjas, have begun prospecting for the leftovers. Small independent crews, without the aid of modern technology or equipment, risk their lives digging for a small piece of the action. It's their land, after all, and they want in on the profit. While officials claim there are almost no people digging illegally in the South Gobi Desert any more, the truth is that many nomads take turns in the summer prospecting for gold after they have sold the cashmere wool of their goats in the spring. The nomads say the prices for cashmere are so low at these times that they need the extra income from the gold. Some of them are using dynamite, digging 30 meters and more into solid ground and using mercury to extract the ore from the stone. But very often they lack the knowledge of how to handle these high-risk materials.