“Tarnished” takes you behind the scenes to show how that glittering
piece of jewelry came to be, in settings far removed from Madison Avenue
or Rodeo Drive or your local mall. You’ll witness Peruvian miners using
their bare feet to mix toxic mercury into barrels of gold-bearing
sediment. You’ll see the gnarled hands and callused feet of boy miners,
old before their time in Burkina Faso. You’ll experience what it’s like,
in the forests of Panama or along the coast in Turkey, to choose
between desperately needed jobs and the protection of land and
traditional cultures that could be lost forever.
http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/tarnished-true-cost-of-gold
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