A lawsuit based on the research, filed on Monday, called for three major gold companies to pay hefty fines and have their activities suspended. They are alleged to have traded in a combined 4.3 tonnes of illegal gold over 2019-20 from lawless southwest Pará state, an area that has seen a surge in illegal mining linked to deforestation, mercury poisoning and violent conflicts with Indigenous people.
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