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Brazil waging fight against illegal mining by land, river and air

By Carlos Meneses Itaituba, Brazil, Feb 15 (EFE).- A loud shout breaks the silence in Brazil’s Amazon region. Let out by an environmental monitoring agent, it alerts his fellow team members to the discovery of a large excavator used in recent days to open a 16-hectare (40-acre) illegal mine in an environmentally protected area of … ....

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Itaituba: Brazilian Amazon's leading illegal gold mining hub

By Carlos Meneses Itaituba, Brazil, Feb 16 (EFE).- Everything revolves around the gold business. Excavator sales are booming. And miners are treated like royalty. Welcome to Itaituba, nicknamed “cidade pepita” (gold nugget city) and the main illegal gold mining hub in the Brazilian Amazon. Artisanal mining is the economic engine of this sleepy urban center … ....

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