A pump transports the water to the top, where it pours over a scaffolding that is covered with a carpet and forms a slide. Metre after metre, they hose down the muddy brown ground in the tropical heat, 12 hours a day, for one month.
Then they wash the carpet with a mercury solution. What remains is gold dust – and a trail of destruction left behind by illegal gold mining in the Amazon.
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