""Now we have seen the Gold and seen the men who dig it, and are satisfied" - thus wrote an on-the-scene observer for American frontier newspapers in April 1858, confirming fabulous rumours about gold strikes in the British possessions. Waves of miners from the American West alr…
The burden of patriarchy -- The power of gold -- Angered spirits -- Polluted money -- Wealth and devotion -- Trading gold
"Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of million…
