Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush

by David Cleary

For many the phrase "gold rush" conjures up images of the 1849ers panning for gold in the western United States. But in 1979, the biggest gold rush of this century began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued unabated ever since.

Despite attempts by governments and mining companies to control it, the Amazon gold rush has flourished, involving hundreds of thousands of miners in an informal-sector industry which produces over a billion dollars'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877452628
• ISBN13: 9780877452621
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"