Lawless mining camps are springing up across the fringe of the Amazon, creating hotbeds of forced prostitution and astronomical levels of pollution. Laborers work in contaminated mud pits and end the day breathing mercury fumes as they purify gold in open oil drums. Despite such misery, Mamani is among the many miners who defend such "artisanal mining" as one of the few paths out of poverty in rural South America.
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