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AP PHOTOS: Illegal gold mining's wasteland

This Nov. 11, 2014 aerial photo, shows a deforested area dotted with tarps, marking the area where miners reside, and water-filled craters caused by illegal gold mining, in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. Illegal gold mining has rendered virgin Peruvian rainforest ten times the size of Manhattan into a pocked, scarred wasteland over the past decade. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) TAMBOPATA, Peru (AP) — A decade of illegal gold mining has transformed large areas of virgin Peruvian rainforest into pocked, denuded, mercury-poisoned wastelands.




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