Illegal gold mining in places like the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon has ravaged ecosystems and endangered residents: many Yanomami no longer have clean drinking water, children are poisoned by the mercury used to process gold ore, and criminal networks terrorize communities. Wherever river mining occurs, similar patterns occur.
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