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  1. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
  2. Colombia - indigenous defender murdered in gold mining frenz
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An indigenous leader in Colombia's 'gold belt' has been killed by unknown gunmen as tensions grow between indigenous communities and outside gold mining interests, many of them linked to illegal armed groups and the drug trade.
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    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  4. The Devil Operation 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
  5. The Globe and Mail as corporate apologists: behind the love affair with Barrick Gold
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), a Canadian gold mine operates amongst the Ipili people, who were one of the last major ethnic groups to be contacted by the Australian colonial administration of New Guinea, or "white man", in 1939. Since that date, Porgera was known for its rich gold deposits and eventually became the site of one of the largest gold mines in the world. Today, Porgera is a site of controversy, as it riches are overshadowed by stories of gang rapes and killings of the Ipili people at the hands of Barrick security and police.
  6. Globe and Mail promotes Controversial Mining Magnate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    How close is too close when it comes to media outlets working with institutions set up by wealthy individuals to influence the news? The question becomes important to ask when Canada's "national newspaper" promotes a worldview paid for by one of the planet's most controversial mining magnates. The Globe and Mail's close ties to the Munk Debates and University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs should worry journalists and everyone who cares about foreign policy discussion in this country.
  7. Last Frontier
    Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Afro-descendant communities in Colombia are fighting to retain control of their ancestral goldmines in the face of pressure from private interests.
  8. Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
  9. OceanaGold vs El Salvador: Foreshadowing 'Trade' Under the TPP? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American country of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million to Canadian-Australian mining multinational OceanaGold as the two face off in a World Bank investor-state tribunal with proven tendency to favor corporate interests over arguments for protecting national sovereignty, the environment, and human rights.
  10. Price of Gold
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
  11. Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
  12. Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank's Kangaroo Court
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In anticipation of an imminent ruling from the World Bank's little known investor-state arbitration tribunal that could force El Salvador to pay Canadian mining firm OceanaGold US$301 million, a Salvadoran delegation is in Canada to discuss how this arbitration process threatens democratic decision making, public health and the environment here and beyond.
  13. Will El Salvador be forced to pay $301 million for valuing clean water over gold?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Central American state of El Salvador could be forced to pay US$301 million in damages to an Australian-Canadian mining company, OceanaGold, after the company's application for a mining license was rejected on the basis of the projected environmental damage it would cause.

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