A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil's Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks

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The surge in gold prices in recent years has fueled a renewed mining rush in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, accelerating deforestation in protected areas and driving mercury contamination to hazardous levels, officials and experts say.

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