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Narcos Fuel Illegal Gold Mining in Brazil
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1:30Now PlayingGangs in Brazil are digging up the precious metal any way they can — at whatever the human and environmental cost. #gold #brazil #amazon #news #worldnews
The showdown from roughly a year ago lays bare the rise of the Narco gold diggers. Wildcat miners, known as the garimpeiros, have existed for the better part of a century, deforesting the land and dirtying the waters. But now, a federal crackdown on environmental crimes and a gold rally that’s sent prices to record highs has driven the industry into further darkness.
Visits by Bloomberg News to mining sites, along with dozens of interviews with miners, experts, locals and officials, unveil a world that is becoming increasingly lethal as a decades-old industry comes under the influence of drug gangs.
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