From the air, they look like polka dots of land disrupting the broad green fabric of the Ecuadorian Amazon. These gray, black and brown polygons are filled with liquid into which mercury is poured, to strip the gold from the rock. This gold is the collected at a nearby “ranchitos” —as these camps are known people who come to the different “ranchitos” —as these camps are known— to collect the grams obtained.
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