Destroying a Canadian town for gold

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The French media has had quite a few items about the town of Malartic in northern Québec which has been mostly bought out to be replaced by an open pit mine.

www.digitaljournal.com/article/291811

infranetlab.org/blog/2008/08/moving-houses/

Goodbye, Malartic. Gold rules the world.

[lagatta]

There are of course environmental concerns about open-pit mining, but it should be kept in mind that Malartic is a charmless company town, not much more than a mining camp, not a town or city like Québec, Trois-Rivières, Montréal and many smaller places. Such mining towns are often moved or abandoned after use. A Swedish friend told me about a similar town there being moved, earlier this year.

I thought Petroleum ruled the world now?

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Gold is at its highest price ever, unlike oil.