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Topic: Gold mining

Oasis Valley speckled dace (Photo by Bureau of Land Management)

Gold mines threaten rare desert fish

Matthew Rozsa
Sierra Nevada Mountains (Getty Images/Alex Potemkin)

Lawsuit halts mining in Sierra Nevadas

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Rich mining companies, poor miners

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
(Rich Carey/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
Photographs by <a href='http://www.bethwaldphotography.com/ecuador2012/index.html'>Beth Wald</a>

"They'll have to kill us all"

Alexander Zaitchik