[iamgoat]

Paul describing the process:

  56:2656:28 They cut the forest, burn the forest.
  56:2856:30 And then they run water through the sand.
  56:3056:33 And the sand particles have bits of gold in it, not chunks.
  56:3356:37 But just little almost microscopic flecks of gold.
  56:3756:40 And then they use the mercury to bind that.
  56:4056:41 And then they burn off the mercury.
  56:4156:43 And that vapor goes up into the clouds.
  56:4356:46 So just like everything else, it's all connected down there
  56:4656:47 and then rains down into the rivers.
  56:4756:50 And so the people in the region are having birth defects

Destruction visible from above: https://www.google.com/maps/@-12.8121497,-70.1009866,76878m/...

[29athrowaway]

They should mine bitcoin instead.