Along with environmental threats posed by cattle ranching expansion, Amazon gold mining has been linked to large scale criminal organizations and found responsible for violence committed against Indigenous and traditional peoples, deforestation, and the contamination of streams with mining waste. Unsafe levels of mercury have even been discovered in hair samples from indigenous people, including children, near gold mining areas in Pará state.
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