Skyrocketing gold prices have spurred a boom in wildcat gold mining in Peru, with Madre de Dios the region most affected. Working in teams of three or four men, miners dredge riverbeds or carve craters in the rain forest using giant sluices, then use mercury to separate the gold from the sediment. Laborers receive a percentage of the gold recovered each day.
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