#LaRutaDelOro Research in Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia shows how the expansion of illegal gold mining is not only degrading part of the reserve of biodiversity in the Amazon, but drastically changing the lives of its inhabitants.
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Mining areas and routes of illegal gold commercialization in border areas of five countries of the Amazon Basin (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil) are unveiled and discussed in “The routes of illegal gold. Case studies in five Amazonian countries”
Illegal mining: the millionaire trace of Swiss refineries
August 18, 2015
Prosecutor identifies Swiss companies MKS and Metalor in money laundering on investigations against their suppliers of gold in Madre de Dios, Peru.
Dirty gold from Ecuador goes on commercial flights to United States
August 27, 2015
OjoPúblico acceded to Ecuatorians records of exports of gold, and identified 140 companies that sent on commercial flights 74 tons of gold abroad, which had as main destinations US companies between 2011 and 2014.