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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 28 No. 12, December 2008

Extraction of gold requires the use of cyanide and produces tonnes of waste, polluting drinking water by rendering it acidic, displacing communities and robbing them of their livelihoods - a heavy price for something most associate with as priceless. You can be part of their active campaigning activities by signing up the pledge to end dirty gold mining. Their campaigns against the opening and expansion of mining companies such as the Newmont Mining Company have turned victorious. Impacts of gold mining could serve as a database for communities world over.

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