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Land mines in Latin America and the Caribbean are a by-product of the Cold War-era conflicts starting off in the 19th century.Contrary to the requirements of generally accepted international law, the minefields of Latin America and the Caribbean (including Central America), were usually unmarked and unrecorded on maps.
Illegal mining can be a subsistence activity, as is the case with artisanal mining, or it can belong to large-scale organized crime, [2] spearheaded by illegal mining syndicates. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On an international level, approximately 80 percent of small-scale mining operations can be categorized as illegal. [ 5 ]
The Orinoco Mining Arc (OMA), is a resource-rich area in Venezuela that has become a hub for illegal mining. It was opened to development in February 2016 as the "Orinoco Mining Arc National Strategic Development Zone", [ 1 ] and has been operating since 2017; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Orinoco Mining Arc covers 12.2% of Venezuelan territory with an area ...
Today, the Yanomami and local officials estimate there are more than 20,000 illegal miners on their land. Amazon gold rush: illegal mining threatens Brazil's last major isolated tribe Skip to main ...
The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has made Brazil's task of cracking down on wildcat mining in the Amazon far ...
Mining in South America by country (13 C) C. Mining communities in South America (1 C, 4 P) D. Mining disasters in South America (3 C, 1 P) M. Mines in South America ...
Police destroyed illegal gold mining operations in La Pampa last week in one of the biggest operations the government has launched since 2014.
Venezuela has 43 national parks and 36 natural monuments, and is the country in Latin America with the largest proportion of protected lands, with over 55 percent of its total territory. (Parks and monuments are only 17 percent of that total; the remaining protected areas are outside those parks and monuments.)