Does words like Garimpeiros or Ninjas of Ogoomor, Ilha Bela or Aurul mean anything to you? All these terms are related to this precious metal.

If not, you had have an excellent occasion for more information in a series of articles by the German news-magazine DER SPIEGEL in March 2008. They were about “Dirty Gold”.

• The Perils of Gold Mining (DER SPIEGEL)
• General information about gold (wikipedia)
• Actual gold price (goldprice.org)
• No dirty gold - a campaign focused on gold

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• No dirty gold - Recent actions
• Earthworks action!

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Thousands of children work in African gold mines
By Rukmini Callimachi and Bradley Klapper The Associated Press (IHT)

These hard-working miners include many thousands of children. They work long hours at often dangerous jobs in hundreds of primitive mines scattered through the West African bush. Some are as young as 4 years old.

In a yearlong investigation, The Associated Press visited six of these bush mines in three West African countries and interviewed more than 150 child miners. The agency’s journalists watched as gold mined by children was bought by itinerant traders. And through interviews and customs documents, they tracked gold from these mines on a 4,800-kilometer, or 3,000-mile, journey to Mali’s capital city and then on to Switzerland, where it entered the world market.

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