The concept of blood diamonds is one that people know too well, as a consequence, consumers have pushed back and demanded that all diamonds come from unethical suppliers. Gold has followed a similarly wrong turn, which leads to asking what the real price that we are paying for gold, is it merely the store tag or greater the ecological and social impact that we are leaving on the earth. From 2000 to 2010 the price of gold has grown exponentially, this has triggered a gold rush in Peru. The region of Madre de Dios (Mother of God), a mostly rural area in the Peruvian Amazon has a large number of gold deposits. For millennial gold, sediment has flowed down from the Peruvian Andes to become later settled in the Amazon. The increases in the price
