Gustavo Quezada, an anti-mining activist, on the Kimsacocha moor. He started in the water defence in the late 1990s when the mining industry started exploration in this territory. "Here is the gold, t...

Motocycles are parked near mounds of earth which mark the entrances to informal gold mining shafts.

A lake of waste water from the Escondida copper, gold and silver mine in the Atacama Desert.

Men work in a gold mine in Peixoto de Azevedo in northern Mato Grosso, which is one of the largest gold producing areas in Brazil. Part of the extraction activity is illegal and even those legalised d...

IBAMA's (Brazil's environmental protection agency) headquarters in Humaita, which was set on fire in 2017 by miners after an agency operation to combat illegal gold mining on the Madeira River, and wh...

Dredges used for illegal gold extraction on the Madeira River.

A statue of beef cattle indicates the entrance of a farm in Peixoto de Azevedo alongside the BR-163 highway. This region that was once covered by the Amazon rainforest has been deforested to make way...

An area degraded by gold mining, located on the banks of the Peixoto de Azevedo River in northern Mato Grosso. This region that was once covered by the Amazon rain forest but has been cleared to make...

An island in the middle of the Tapajos River near Itaituba. There is an expectation that after the construction of the Belo Monte dam, the next hydroelectric dam on the Amazon will be built on the Tap...

Men working in an illegal gold mine on the Rato River, a tributary of the Tapajos River, within the Itaituba National Forest. Practiced since the late 1950s in the region, the activity has undergone a...

Men working in an illegal gold mine on the Rato River, a tributary of the Tapajos River, within the Itaituba National Forest. Practiced since the late 1950s in the region, the activity has undergone a...

A man climbs out of his temporary shelter at the so-called Guantanamo artisinal mine in Tagharaba. Artisinal mining is one of the few sources of employment in this part of Niger.

A man sleeping on the surface at an informal gold mine.

A pan panning for gold on the surface at an informal gold mine.

People working on the surface at an informal gold mine.