Peru's dirty gold - TechKnow

The Amazon rainforest is home to 10 percent of the world's known species, and its ancient trees remove millions of tons of carbondioxide per year from the atmosphere. Its pristine forests, however, are increasingly under threat.

The soil underneath some of the rainforests is laced with gold, and each year, thousands of kilometres of the Amazon rainforest are devastated by illegal gold mining.
In Peru, where the rainforest covers about 60 percent of the country, illegal mining operations threaten local communities and turn swathes of rainforest into barren waste sites.
So what are the consequences of illegal mining for local communities and the ecosystem? What can be done to stop the destruction of the rainforest? And what happens to the dirty gold once it leaves Peru?

[GeneralHensaleey]

Greed is the biggest factor in the world

[Peter-nvwu]

Well done Al Jazeera, let's have more investigative journalism like this ! Like so many people out there, I am certain I had no knowledge about "dirty gold" and I am sure the same applies to so many other everyday products we purchase. Only by bringing stories like this to everyone's attention will we eventually be able to bring to an end practices similar to this.

[karansena]

Simple and best news channel in the whole world.

[bsr]

as someone who work in this, dirty gold is dirty gold, just because you use recycled gold doesnt mean that it wasnt dirty to begin with. You are just laundering dirty gold, making it "clean" gold

[lindagroundwater]

How can gold be dirty when you’re trying to raise your family on one dollar a day ?

[ayaanleidris]

journeymen, aljazeera n vice have da best documentaries

[tsurumikutaro]

Peru land of fine cacao. As chocolatier i fell sad for the rainforest and the cacao trees.😣

[manishmandal-]

Payal Sampat, India has many many problems that needs addressing including heavy pollution

[TiempoNuevo-ewty]

They need to find another way to mine without using toxic chemicals like mercury. We need to do much more recycling of everything like batteries, glass, fabrics, rubber, cement, ...everything.

[iloverapkc]

The real question is where does the recycled gold come from? Pretty sure its jus dirty gold recycled.

[nuggetella]

Good work, need more of it world wide.

[dixfer]

My family and I also need to feed ourselves thus we will buy all of your dirty gold.

[daviddraguta]

Ohhhh, if the local get there gold, is dirty? LOL

[Peter-nvwu]

It's the same as always, big companies move in with one idea in mind, take as much as you possibly can, as fast as you can while paying workers as little as possible or don't even pay them at all, as often happens and don''t concern yourself with the damage and destruction you leave. Once everything is polluted and totally destroyed, simply move on, threaten and evict the indigenous population from their land, and start all over again. And so it goes on and on !

[schopen-hauer]

we need less technology n more humanity

[pug]

the Amazon jungle is the lungs of the world and yes we have to take care of this beautiful place and I'm not talking just about just Peruvians but humanity in general

[JSkyGemini]

People often say, why do we need to get out into space? Well I think I can endorse the mining of some asteroids or moons for resources if it helps to ease this destruction of our planet Earth. There is no other place like this that we can even see, never mind get to and yet we treat it with such disrespect, it just makes you want to cry. There's literally no place we haven't hurt in some way. Kudos to Tiffany's if that's legit though, you have to start somewhere.

[Dirtylou]

Facts 11 - don't take back a kilo of cocaine back to the state, just because it cost between $1, 500 - $1, 700 dollar ..

[ThePIPdesign]

100% of all the gold is recycled and refined unless it is a Nugget or raw fragments

[SoCalFreelance]

Wish you would identify where the illegal gold mining 'outsiders' are from.