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The scourge of illegal gold mining

Peru has declared a 60-day emergency in a remote part of the Amazon to curb high levels of mercury poisoning from rampant illegal gold mining.<br>

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The scourge of illegal gold mining

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  1. The scourge of illicit gold mining

  2. A kid conveys a pooch as he stands after a Peruvian police operation to devastate illicit gold mining camps in the southern Amazon district of Madre de Dios. A developing number of studies demonstrate that occupants of the Madre de Dios district close to Peru's southeastern fringe with Brazil have unsafe levels of mercury in their bodies. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  3. An illicit gold dig blazes on a waterway close to the Amazon city of Puerto Maldonado, February 2011. The mineworkers dump around 40 tons of mercury into Amazonian waterways every year and have annihilated more than 100,000 hectares (247,105 sections of land) of rainforest in Madre de Dios. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

  4. View of annihilated illicit gold mining camps after a police operation in La Pampa, in the southern Amazon area of Madre de Dios, August 2015. A huge number of unlawful excavators who dig for gold in the waterways and wetlands of Madre de Dios use mercury to partitioned metal from rock, regularly taking care of the neurotoxin with their exposed hands and breathing in its vapor when it is smoldered off. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

  5. Peruvian cops join in an operation to annihilate illicit gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon district of Madre de Dios, July 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  6. A lady and her youngster stand close flotsam and jetsam after a police operation to decimate unlawful gold mining camps in La Pampa, in the southern Amazon area of Madre de Dios, August 2015. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

  7. A general perspective of a deforested territory almost an unlawful gold mine at Puerto Luz in the Amazon locale of Madre de Dios, September 2012. REUTERS/Miguel Bellido/El Comercio

  8. A Peruvian cop smolders hardware utilized by unlawful diggers amid an operation to annihilate illicit gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon locale of Madre de Dios, July 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  9. An zone deforested by unlawful gold mining is found in a zone known as Mega 13, at the southern Amazon area of Madre de Dios, January 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  10. Police escort a gathering of mineworkers kept amid a police operation to crush illicit gold mining camps in La Pampa, in the southern Amazon district of Madre de Dios, August 2015. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

  11. View of pulverized illicit gold mining camps after a police operation in La Pampa, in the southern Amazon district of Madre de Dios, August 2015. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda

  12. Miners and their families leave a camp after Peruvian police operation to pulverize illicit gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon district of Madre de Dios, July 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  13. Peruvian cops partake in an operation to devastate unlawful gold mining camps in Salpo town in the Andes montains of La Libertad, May 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

  14. Miners watch a police operation to crush illicit gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 13, at the southern Amazon locale of Madre de Dios, January 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

  15. Peruvian cops join in an operation to decimate illicit gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon district of Madre de Dios, July 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  16. Peruvian cops join in an operation to decimate illicit gold mining camps in Salpo town in the Andes montains of La Libertad, May 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

  17. Peruvian cops partake in an operation to annihilate illicit gold mining camps in Salpo town in the Andes montains of La Libertad, May 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

  18. A perspective of an unlawful gold mining camp in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon locale of Madre de Dios, July 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  19. Peruvian cops partake in an operation to annihilate illicit gold mining camps in Salpo town in the Andes montains of La Libertad, May 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

  20. An territory deforested by illicit gold mining is found in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon locale of Madre de Dios, July 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  21. An range deforested by unlawful gold mining is found in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon locale of Madre de Dios. Peru has pronounced a 60-day crisis in a remote part of the Amazon to control elevated amounts of mercury harming from uncontrolled unlawful gold mining. REUTERS/Janine Costa

  22. Peruvian cops join in an operation to pulverize unlawful gold mining camps in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon district of Madre de Dios, July 2015. REUTERS/Janine Costa

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