Much media attention has been drawn to the problem of blood diamonds, but what about blood gold? The gold mining industry is often highly exploitative and unregulated, plagued by issues like child labour and hellish working conditions and causing enormous environmental damage because of the mercury and cyanide used in the extraction process, not to […]

Cotapata is a gold mining cooperative in Bolivia’s Cotapata National Park area. It was the world’s first mining organization to receive Fairtrade and Fairmined certification.