Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this year, the head of the federal police's new environmental crimes division said Tuesday.
Police are setting up new Amazon bases and seeking international cooperation on law enforcement in the region, including the development of radio-isotope technology to prove the illegal origin of seized gold, Humberto Freire told Reuters.
"We still have some pockets of miners who are holding out by hiding in some areas, so we going through the Yanomami territory with a fine comb," Freire said in an interview. The police did not focus on arresting miners, Freire said, instead seizing or blocking 68 million reais of resources belonging to those accused of financing the illegal miners, while dismantling a prostitution network that took underage girls to the mining camps.
The Brazilian government is also studying new laws to stamp out illegal gold mining, which accounts for roughly half of Brazilian gold the country exports to nations, including Switzerland and Britain.aimed at cracking down on laundered gold would require electronic tax receipts for the buying and selling of the precious metal.
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