Huge 'blood mines' discovered in Amazon - with one so big it has its own church

 Across the Amazon, miners pour litres of deadly mercury into the water’s ecosystem as they amalgamate the gold, while dredging has turned the “Blue River” brown.

A study revealed 306,000 locals in the municipality of Santarém had dangerously high levels of mercury in their blood from eating affected fish.

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