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Brazil tackles illegal miners & mercury pollution

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase

As the details of the humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory unfold amid action to remove illegal miners, mercury left by the rampant gold mining in the area will remain a lingering toxic legacy.

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