Itaituba, Brazil. 03rd Oct, 2019. "We buy and make jewellery - GOLD", stands on the wall of a small shop where gold prospectors turn gold into money and sell what they have torn from the ground in laborious work. Gold prospecting in the Amazon offers men from all over Brazil a quick way to make money. But the extraction of the precious metal destroys the nature and the cohesion of the indigenous people. (to dpa "The dirty business with the Amazon gold") Credit: Monica Raymunt/dpa/Alamy Live News

Itaituba, Brazil. 03rd Oct, 2019. "We buy and make jewellery - GOLD", stands on the wall of a small shop where gold prospectors turn gold into money and sell what they have torn from the ground in laborious work. Gold prospecting in the Amazon offers men from all over Brazil a quick way to make money. But the extraction of the precious metal destroys the nature and the cohesion of the indigenous people. (to dpa "The dirty business with the Amazon gold") Credit: Monica Raymunt/dpa/Alamy Live News Stock Photo

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