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#10 The fact that mercury is used to extract the gold is at the base of an ecological disaster. The mercury gets into the water and into the food chain. Everybody eats fish

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#10 The fact that mercury is used to extract the gold is at the base of an ecological disaster. The mercury gets into the water and into the food chain. Everybody eats fish

Brazil’s Massive Serra Pelada Gold Mine: Thousands Scratched In The Dirt For Treasure In the 1980s And Discovered 44.5 Ton Of Gold

#10 The fact that mercury is used to extract the gold is at the base of an ecological disaster. The mercury gets into the water and into the food chain. Everybody eats fish

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←#9 Workers taking a break from the digging.
#11 Women who came to live at Serra Pelada separated the men who worked the mine from some of their gold as they relieved their suffering and solitude.→

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