Colombia's vast Choco province may be rich in precious minerals, but its poor have not prospered from the burgeoning mining industry.

This may change with the arrival of the world's first "sustainable" gold mine -- a concept nothing short of a revolution in an industry widely denounced as environmentally disastrous and deeply unfair.

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