The protests target new laws that give some 70,000 small-scale miners
a deadline to register with the government and meet legal standards or
face possible imprisonment.
Officials say illegal mining is
destroying the Amazon rain forest. But miners say they're being treated
as criminals and the clean-up endangers the livelihood of thousands of
families.
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