For Valentine's Day, a campaign to remind folks of how dirty the whole gold mining enterprise is. The focus was mostly on the environment, but a lot of the arguments about the social and economic impacts of mining in the 3rd world could also be made. Of course, it's nowhere near as dirty politically as the bloody African diamond enterprise.
P.S. The article notes that Wal-Mart is one of the three largest (maybe largest?) gold dealers in the U.S. Kinda scary!
Posted by duver001 at February 14, 2005 11:08 AM