The incident took place on Wednesday in the remote inland forest region of Saint-Jean d’Abounami, the military said.
The troops had been in action since last Thursday.
Illegal gold mining is common in French Guiana, with the environmental conservation group, WWF describing it as the region’s “main social, health and environmental scourge’’.
According to WWF, illegal artisan miners use an average of 1.3 kilogrammes of toxic mercury to extract each kilogramme of gold
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