2010.54.18888

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Fool's Gold
Fool's Gold
Late 20th Early 21st Century
26.875 in HIGH x 16 in WIDE
(68.26 cm HIGH x 40.64 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.18888

Contact information for Project Underground printed on the bottom edge. Inkworks Press logo and text designating the press as the designer and printer on verso top right.





Poster printed on white paper with a beige background with black text. At the center is a circle with text above and below reading "ten problems with gold mining / fool''s gold". At the center of the circle are facts about gold mining. Surrounding the circle are the ten problems - genocide, water, waste rock, free access, indigenous rights, cyanide, mercury, dowry, dud investment, and ecosystem impacts, each with text expanding on the issue. Poster verso designed like a mailer, with mailing section and a quote by Mark Twain at the top left. On verso bottom is a chart and text offering a solution.
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