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Economy & Business - August 2022
BRAZIL: Dirty gold finds a place in smartphones
There is a good chance that anyone who owns communication devices made by Apple or uses IT software and services provided by tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, or Alphabet (parent company of Google) is to some extent relying on small quantities of illegal gold mined in the Brazilian Amazon.
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