Mining No Golden Opportunity For Turkey, Mongolia

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Residents of the Kaz Mountains (pictured) in Turkey are worried about the impact of gold mining. Photo: B@ni / Creative Commons . With few legal or political avenues open to fight what they say is illegal and environmentally damaging mining, four Mongolian activists took drastic action earlier this fall: They opened fire with hunting rifles on gold-mining equipment owned by two foreign firms, China’s Puraam and Canada’s Centerra Gold…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mining No Golden Opportunity For Turkey, Mongolia

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