→ 'National Geographic' Mines 'The Real Price Of Gold'
In the past eight years, the price of gold has risen 235 percent, soaring from $271 an ounce in 2001 to more than $1,000 an ounce today.
But as journalist Brook Larmer and photographer Randy Olson report in their January 2009 National Geographic cover story, “The Real Price of Gold,” the environmental and human costs related to the mineral have never been higher.
