The Oro Puno Gold Mine, Peru
High in Peru’s Andes, at around 4,700 meters, the miners of Oro Puno wash gold out of the gravel of ancient glaciers – with water
Florian Harkort
27. September 2026
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High in Peru’s Andes, at around 4,700 meters, the miners of Oro Puno wash gold out of the gravel of ancient glaciers – with water
At around 4,700 meters in Peru’s Andes, where alpaca herding was the traditional way to make a living, ten cooperatives mine gold together as CECOMSAP.
In the green hills of Huila, Colombia, coffee farmers go underground to mine gold – under the Fairmined Standard, every year since 2014. Their cooperative
Gold mining supports more than 100 million people – and in parts of the world it also runs on child labor, displacement and armed violence.
For every gram of gold, industrial mining moves around three tonnes of rock – some 18 tonnes for a single wedding ring. Gold is also
Oro Verde, Spanish for “green gold,” was a community program of Afro-Colombian miners in the rainforest of Chocó, founded in 2000. They recovered gold and
Industrial gold mining moves around three tonnes of rock for every gram of gold it produces – roughly 18 tonnes for a single wedding ring.
Gold mining is two industries that happen to share a name. One employs around a million people and produces roughly 85 % of the world’s
Around 100 million people worldwide live off artisanal and small-scale gold mining.1 That’s 90 to 95 % of every job in gold mining – from
In this piece, Fairever founder Florian Harkort shares what first drew him to fair gold nearly two decades ago, how a question that surfaced in