Peru, the largest gold producer in Latin America and the sixth largest in the world, has long struggled with illegal gold mining. Thousands of small, unchecked operations extracting gold from the Amazon are responsible for nearly 200 square miles of deforestation and mercury poisoning to the water so severe that several regions declared a state of emergency last year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/01/peru-illegal-gold-mines-devaste-amazon-rain-forest/98917084/?hootPostID=2dab359baca4cc1d1f881ee40eac8210
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