Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Mongabay
Jan 21, 2022, 12:31 pm322 pts
Illegal mining in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon saw as much as a fivefold increase since 2010, a gold rush driven largely by surging prices in international markets. Over the past year, 25.4 tons of the precious metal worth an estimated $1.2 billion has been exported from Brazil to Switzerland, making…

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