It seems as though little can tarnish the yellow metal’s shine. Scratch a little under the surface, however, and correlations with trafficking, child labour and other human-rights violations begin to raise their ugly heads. Dig deeper, and be prepared to be hit by some truly horrific statistics: 900 Peruvian farmers poisoned by a mercury spill; 40,000 hectares of the Amazon forest destroyed; indigenous people from Ghana forced from their ancestral forest homeland.
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