In those days, when the price of bullion was pegged at $35 U.S. an ounce, many Canadian gold mines survived only through government assistance. The key to the economics of gold mining is to locate ore with enough of the mineral in it to make exploitation worthwhile. The documentary zeroes in on a community near America’s Yellowstone Park and their efforts to prevent gold-mining in the area. In London’s gold exchange, we are treated to the views of gold bugs who try to explain their single-minded focus on the metal. And yet the world keeps on mining gold.

Source: thestar March 12, 2019 19:30 UTC