Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru's Amazon, and experts say it is driving a growing environmental and health crisis.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname have arrested nearly 200 people in their first-ever joint cross-border operation targeting illegal gold ...
SERRA PELADA, Brazil (Reuters) -With a voice more youthful than his 72 years would suggest, Lucindo Lima sings about the untold riches he never made in Brazil's Serra Pelada mine, a site made famous ...
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Brazil mining boss sentenced for illegal gold operation on Indigenous land
By Shanna Hanbury A Brazilian federal court has sentenced a key financier to more than 22 years in prison. He was found ...
Ever since Mitú was first established as a settlement in 1935, it has rapidly transformed into an expanding urban town in one of Colombia’s most isolated departments. The Amazonian forests, rivers and ...
This image provided by Interpol shows an illegal gold mining site on Dec. 18, 2025, in the Upper Takutu-Upper Esequibo region of Guyana. (Interpol via AP) (Uncredited) BOGOTA – Police and prosecutors ...
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