As a report carried out by the No Dirty Gold campaign illustrates, gold mining involves, “massive pollution, huge open pits, devastating community health effects, worker dangers and, in many cases, human rights abuses that have become hallmarks of gold and metals mining in countries such as Peru, Indonesia, Ghana and in parts of the United States.”
Labourers work long hours for little pay in terrible conditions and in some cases children are forced to work, and become ill as a result of exposure to massive amounts of mercury and lead. Meanwhile deadly metals also seep into the land from the mines and affect the health of local communities.
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