Wildcat Gold Mining Is Devastating the Amazon
garimpo – a small-scale, informal gold, diamond, and tin placer mining campWildcat gold mining continues to be a problem. It’s estimated that there are as many as 5,000 illegal small-scale gold mining camps scattered throughout the Brazilian Amazon.The wildcat miners that operate small-scale gold mining camps in the Brazilian Amazon are known as garimpeiros. Across the centuries, garimpeiros have scoured … Read moreWildcat Gold Mining Is Devastating the Amazon