I’ve seen how ASM miners have shifted away from traditional means of extraction, such as using bateas and ancestral plants to separate gold from other metals to relying on dredges, backhoes, and toxic chemicals like mercury or cyanide. Gold mining leads to deforestation, transforming forests into contaminated ponds, and pollutes rivers with mercury.
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