Akyem, Ghana

Newmont Mining wants to place an open pit gold mine in the Ajenjua Bepo Forest Reserve.

Berners Bay, Alaska

The Kensington mine wants to dump mine waste into a pristine fish-bearing lake in Southeast Alaska.

Bristol Bay, Alaska

Native and commercial fishing communities are concerned that the Pebble copper-gold mine would destroy their salmon-based ways of life and livelihoods.

Buyat Bay, Indonesia

The Minahasa Raya gold mine is closing down, and communities are worried about long-lasting health and environmental effects as a result of coastal dumping of mine waste.

Cajamarca, Peru

Local communities and the environment have paid a high price for the success of the Yanacocha  gold mine, one of the world's largest and most profitable mining operations.

Chiquitano Forest, Bolivia

Enron and the World Bank have acted to enable the Don Mario mine without adequately consulting local indigenous communities.

Espolon Valley, Chile

A planned mine by Kinross Gold would threaten pristine rivers and the fishing and nature tourism that depend on them.

Esquel, Argentina

Despite local objections, Meridian Gold wanted to mine this pristine Patagonian region using an operation requiring 2.7 tons of cyanide daily.

Goilala District,
Papua New Guinea

Villagers say that mine wastes from the Tolukuma Gold Mine, which are dumped directly into the local river, may have led to illnesses and deaths.

Issky-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

Chemical spills and worker injuries and deaths have raised concerns about Kyrgyzstan's largest gold mine.

Rosia Montana, Romania

Gabriel Resources wants to build Europe's largest open-pit gold mine, but local people are resisting.

Sansu, Ghana

Small-scale miners and farmers have lost their livelihood and face human rights abuses by Ashanti Goldfields.

Tambogrande, Peru

The citizens of Tambogrande united to defend their farms and town against a gold mine proposal.

Wassa District, Ghana

Thousands of villagers have no access to clean drinking water because of cyanide spills in Wassa.

Western Shoshone Nation, United States

Gold mining is destroying Western Shoshone lands, sacred places, and water resources.

Mothers Speak Out

Mothers around the world are fighting to protect their communities and environment from mining's impacts.