Quote Originally Posted by Chex View Post
My question is why are they (they signed a pledge not to buy gold from) still mining if gold is not money?

And what of the No Dirty Gold campaign, in which more than 50 gold buyers and retailers, including Zale (ZLC), Wal-Mart (WMT), QVC (LINTA), and Balfour (the graduation ring company), signed a pledge not to buy gold from the Pebble Mine? Is “dirty gold” becoming the new conflict diamond? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-mi...143342651.html
Gold does have industrial purposes.