From pickaxes to AI, COP30 host state holds past and future of Amazon mining

Cristiana Gigina

SERRA PELADA, Brazil :With a voice more youthful than his 72 years would suggest, Lucindo Lima sings about the untold riches he never made in Brazil's Serra Pelada mine, a site made famous by a 1980s gold rush immortalized by the late photographer Sebastiao Salgado. "Under those mountains all our riches are hidden," Lima sings outside his decaying wooden house in Serra Pelada, a hilly district in the town of Curionopolis, in the Amazonian state of Para. Set to host the COP30 United Nations

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