in eastern Peru are in fact prospecting pits, likely left by independent miners, according to NASA's Earth Observatory, which published the photo taken by one of its astronauts.
Independent gold mining supports tens of thousands of people in the Madre de Dios region, making it one of the largest unregistered mining industries in the world, according to NASA. The only road connection between Brazil and Peru was meant to boost trade and tourism, but "deforestation may be the larger result of the highway," said NASA.Madre de Dios is a pristine chunk of the Amazon about the size of South Carolina, where macaws and monkeys, jaguars and butterflies thrive.
gosh
I thought it may of been lithium mines. Should be a ton of those popping up soon
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