Illegal miners set fire to environmental offices in Brazil

The garimpeiros carried out the attack on Friday night after an Ibama-led operation that destroyed 35 “balsas” — boats that are used to carry the equipment the small-scale miners need to process the mined material and extract the gold. “Despite this attack… we’re going to continue with the operation and destroy the remaining balsas,” Leland told Amazonia Real. The garimpeiros are not licensed to carry out their mining activity and use no mechanisms to control mercury pollution, he said.
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