Talk:Gold mining

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I haven't learned how to revert. Gold mining has been vandalized. ;Bear 20:13, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Human Rights Violations" section

It is clear that the following text is NOT NPOV. I have moved it here to the talk page temporarily so that editing suggestions can be discussed prior to moving an NPOV version back to the main page.

Human rights violations in large-scale goldmining
Open pit gold mining destroys large portions of fertile land and water bodies. Rural communities face involuntary resettlement, often without adequate compensation. Civil society organisations from all continents call on governments to stop irresponsible gold mining:Berlin Declaration 2005: stop irresponsible gold mining

For those that do not understand the issue, Wikipedia is not a forum for advocacy for any cause whatsoever -- it is a neutral provider of information. That means that it is not a place for people to try to recruit people to their cause, to explain how evil a particular industry is, how good a particular industry is, or anything else like that. All articles have to have a NEUTRAL viewpoint.

In this particular case, I would propose that the given section be altered to discuss the pros and cons of gold mining, explain the existence of controversy, and to provide links (without specific endorsement of any sort) to organizations on both sides of such issues.

--Pmetzger 15:01, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

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Where is gold mined? --McTrixie 11:57, 28 September 2006 (UTC)