8/7/2021- 12:39 p.m.
Brazil – exported 111 tonnes of gold last year, valued at $ 4.9 billion, mainly to Canada, Switzerland, Poland, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Italy, and India & 19 tonnes, or 17% of that gold was illegally mined.
The Amazon has more than 4,470 illegal mining sites, more than half of them in Brazil.
Gold lacking registration or permits was exported mainly by Southeastern states, such as Minas Gerais and São Paulo, the report finds.
According to a report published last year by the nonprofit Amazon Geo-Referenced Socio-Environmental Information Network.
Illegal gold and diamond mining are also threatening South America’s largest group of Indigenous peoples who still live in relative isolation, the Yanomami.
