Mining-related activities are wreaking environmental havoc in the forest, poisoning its wildlife and indigenous people with the unregulated use of toxic chemicals and heavy metals such as mercury. A study published by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation found that 92% of people living in some villages downstream from the mines suffered from mercury poisoning. Slave tattoos with numbers have even been found on indigenous people – many of them children – forced to labour in the mines.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/venezuelas-gold-rush-illegal-miners-face-malaria-mercury-poisoning-organised-crime-1612873
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