A gold miner weighs his weekly production at an illegal mine in the Amazon jungle, in the Itaituba area of Para state, Brazil, Aug. 22, 2020. Nuggets are spirited out of the jungle by prospectors to the nearest city where they are sold to financial brokers. (AP Photo/Lucas Dumphreys, File)
January 13, 2022
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January 13, 2022 10:35 a.m.
Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon gold seeps into supply chains
gold illegally mined in the rainforest mixes into the supply chain and melds with clean gold to become almost indistinguishable