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'Rivers of gold' rush through the Peruvian Amazon in stunning NASA photo

They look like pools of pure gold; they're actually pits of toxic mud.
The scientists restoring a gold-mining disaster in the Peruvian Amazon
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The scientists restoring a gold-mining disaster in the Peruvian Amazon

Months after the military expelled thousands of illegal miners from La Pampa, researchers gained access to a sandy wasteland.
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