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Family men or forest destroyers? Meet the miners living off the Amazon’s gold

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Posted on January 22, 2021

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Alemão, a wildcat miner in Brazil’s Amazon, sifts through excavated rock for gold in a protected reserve in Para state, August 20, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau

A wildcat miner sifts through excavated rock for gold in a protected reserve in Para state, in Brazil’s Amazon, August 20, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau

A wildcat gold miner uses a pickaxe to illegally dig for gold ore in a protected reserve in Para state, in Brazil’s Amazon, August 20, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau

A wildcat gold miner weighs gold nuggets illegally extracted from a protected reserve in Para state, in Brazil’s Amazon, August 21, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau

Grande, a wildcat miner, displays a roll of cash earned illegally extracting gold from a protected reserve in Para state, in Brazil’s Amazon, August 24, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau

Grande, a wildcat gold miner, stands at the window of his home in Novo Progresso, in Para state in Brazil’s Amazon region, August 24, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Lucas Landau

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