Gold Rush Tears Up a Patch of the Amazon
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By MICHAEL ASTOR ELDORADO DO JUMA, Brazil - It's a gold rush in the Amazon jungle, driven by the Internet.
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SNOWBIRD - The mining industry helped build Utah&#39;s economy, but boom-time digging led to a modern-day landscape pockmarked with holes that once produced silver, gold, copper and lead.
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Gold surged to a historic high above $910 an ounce, as investors rushed in to buy the metal on further weakness in the dollar and expectations of a sharp cut in U.S. interest rates, analysts said.
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Brazilian police seize a big load of illegally logged lumber as officials start new  moves to tackle Amazon deforestation.
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A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing.
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The bitterly fought $8.1bn (Â£4.5bn) bid battle for control of Gold Fields is set to become even more acrimonious this week when Harmony Gold Mining launches a fresh attack on its target&#39;s track record.
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This steamy city at the mouth of the Amazon river is a haven for pirates Â the digital kind who copy CDs and DVDs by the thousands for illegal sidewalk sales.
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Environmentalists in Peru criticise plans to auction off large swathes of the Amazon to oil and gas firms.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rubber tappers, fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¿s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. Rain forest spread lush in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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Gold swept to a record high on Wednesday above the key $850-an-ounce mark, driven by surging oil, a weaker dollar and simmering geopolitical tensions that polished its safe-haven credentials.
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URUCU, Brazil  - A tower of orange flame rises  above the Amazon jungle, firing the energy goals of the  Brazilian government.
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Life is bleak for the gold miners and their families working more than 5km up in the Peruvian Andes.
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The mining colony established by Christopher Columbus on his second trip to the Americas began to pilfer its own supply of ore in the face of rapidly deteriorating conditions, according to a new study.
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Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, officials said Thursday.
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A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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The rate of Amazon deforestation rose sharply during the last five months of 2007 as land was cleared for soy and cattle, prompting a top-level emergency meeting Thursday by Brazilian officials to deal with the problem.