Artisanal mining (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Artisanal mining

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Most gold mines in the Peruvian Amazon are unregulated, small-scale operations, leaving governments without ways to protect the surrounding environment or track how much forest is lost to mining.

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Photo courtesy of Lisa Naughton

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