Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown

Mongabay
Feb 10, 2025, 12:15 pm86 pts
In 2021, an army of dredges equipped to churn up the riverbed in search of gold invaded the largest tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. The structures lined up like walls along the Madeira River, which has a history of illegal mining. Yet that moment was historic in its own right for the sheer scale of the…

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Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown

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