| More and more it seems that local populations, perhaps stirred-up by often misleading information from environmental activists, are protesting - sometimes violently - against the establishment of significant gold mining operations in their areas.
For example, in Peru, there is an ongoing protest by the citizens of Cajamarca against the development of the Newmont/Buenaventura $3.4 billion Minas Conga gold mine while in Europe's Balkan region the citizens of the town of Krumovgrad in Bulgaria are currently conducting a campaign against the development of an open pit gold mine by Dundee Precious Metals...............................................Full Article: Source
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