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The Brazilian Amazon possesses extraordinary mineral wealth, including vast reserves of gold, copper, titanium, tin, bauxite and other ores. But environmentalists question whether this great wealth has brought more problems than benefits.

History shows that large-scale industrial mining causes major deforestation, wrecks ecosystems, and does serious socioeconomic harm, while failing to bring prosperity to rural communities.

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