"I spend sleepless nights thinking about where to dig to find gold. And if we don't find any, we're depressed, depressed enough to die."
- Nergui, a herder-turned-ninja miner
"We've lost our grassland. We've lost everything. How unfortunate we are that we had gold in our land. Without gold, our rivers would flow and life would be normal. Now there's no way back."
- Dechindorj Ganbold, former herder who is protesting the environmental damage caused by mining