Gold Mining in French Guiana Introduction A popular commodity since ancient times, gold is used for a wide variety of purposes, such as jewelry making, currency backing, medicinal treatments, and etc. (Corti and Holliday 2004). Because of this high demand for gold as well as its increasing prices globally, gold mining has become a very lucrative industry. Gold mining corporations have great interests in extracting gold deposits because it gives them control over the international markets…
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