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Amram and Zelikman are too cynical to take up anything resembling a cause, but on a whim and for the promise of gold, they undertake restoring to the throne a deposed princeling named Filaq. This involves much swordplay, thieving of horses, charging of war elephants, lodging of arrows in throats and so forth. There's virtually no line in this book that isn't typical of the whole, so this one will serve: "She flung herself onto the Turkoman's back and with the rank bacon smell of his oiled hair in her nostrils bit off his ear, a salt...
...piece, a six-inch statue of an icon named Faith, once formed part of the ornate gold-leaf side altars that date from 1690, shortly after work on the church began. "It was priceless," says Dom Paulo Azeredo Coutinho, one of the 45 monks who live and work in the famous building and monastery...
Indeed, in Montana's Little Rockies, a gold mining operation that was abandoned in 1997 after 20 years of cyanide leaching - a method of dissolving gold from ore rocks - is still polluting the area and costing millions in public funds to monitor and treat groundwater. Pegasus Gold, the Canadian mine operator, which has since filed for bankruptcy, paid no royalties on the gold it extracted from the area, and now the Ft. Belknap Tribes of Montana, whose reservations adjoin the Little Rockies mining district, says its surface waters are showing unacceptable levels of iron, arsenic, zinc and nickel. "Our biggest...
...there are some in the industry who think the royalty will actually be a boon for business. Gold mining's biggest market, the jewelry retailers, support Rahall's bill saying that environmental responsibility is what more and more of its customers are looking for: at least 80% of gold consumed goes to the superfluous bling of human adornment, and some of those customers are feeling ethical pangs...
Tiffany and Co. CEO Michael J. Kowalski early last year signed onto the "No Dirty Gold" campaign launched by the mining-reform advocate Earthworks and has drawn most of the large retailers into supporting Rahall's reform effort. The last thing image-conscious companies like Tiffany want is to be linked to controversies such as that over conflict diamonds, portrayed in the movie Blood Diamond, nor do they want to be seen as callous parties to mining disasters. "Our customers were anxious to be assured that the metals and gemstones used in Tiffany products were extracted and processed in socially...