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    Many people don’t know where gold comes from, nor how it’s extracted. Gold mining can displace entire communities, contaminate supplies of fresh drinking water, harm workers´ well beings and cause serious damage to the environment. For many, a wedding ring or other piece of gold jewellery has a value that can’t be measured. Perhaps you yourself have a gold ring. Although that ring is a priceless symbol, the gold itself comes with a higher cost. The cost of gold for the planet and its people is much higher than the value of the metal. The production of a single gold ring generates 20 tons of waste. Gold mining is without doubt one of the most polluting industries in the world. It uses cyanide, generates enormous amounts of waste and leaves a permanent scar on the local communities and landscape. More than half of all the gold in the world originates in indigenous territory. In places as diverse as Ghana, Indonesia, the USA and Peru, gold mines have displaced communities without their consent and have destroyed traditional ways of living and earning. On top, they’ve damaged whole ecosystems. In particular, indigenous towns have suffered disproportionately the negative impacts of gold mining, thus intensifying the injustices they already faced.