As the mines proliferate, the environmental damage is stunning.
Filled with sediment, rivers cease to be navigable, cutting off towns in
drier months. Water that used to be clear or blue-green is opaque and
grayish-brown. Townspeople can no longer wash white clothes in
rivers—they come out gray.
Residents of one riverside town said they hadn’t caught any bocachico,
a local fish that is a dietary staple, in about three years. And even
if they had, the amount of mercury and cyanide dumped into the river—the
product of cheap but antiquated gold extraction methods—could make them
risky to eat.
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