As a jewelry designer, my love of gold is undeniable. However, modern practices and consumption of these precious minerals have raised many concerns about ethics and consequences on the environment.The mining process that produces the amount of gold used in one simple wedding band produces 20 tons of waste into the environment, including dangerous chemicals such as mercury and cyanide. At an estimated 0.005 parts per million, gold is one of the ten rarest elements existing in the earth’s crust an...

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