Illegal gold mining in Brazil’s Amazon is thriving, fueled by rising gold prices and the promise of quick wealth. But with the environmental destruction it brings, local communities and Indigenous groups are bearing a heavy toll.
Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiew reports from Itaituba, in the Amazon basin.
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