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It's February 2023. Tom Phillips, The Guardian's Latin America correspondent,
has landed by helicopter in one of the most isolated corners of Brazil.
He's in indigenous territory, near the northern border with Venezuela.
Wow, we've just arrived at a mine and the guys have literally just gone.
They must be right in the forest around us.
There's a camp with a blue tarp over the top.
They are the miners, known locally as the Garimperos.
Minerals all over the shop, chainsaws.
They've taken over dozens of indigenous Yanomami villages to mine illegally for cassiterite, an oxide used to make tin.
There were people here just minutes ago, and they're somewhere here.
Moving through the jungle now, trying to get through these paths and get to the camp and the mine.Com watches
as special forces soldiers from Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency fan out across an apocalyptic landscape.
There is mud everywhere, sodden craters and fallen trees.
They're leading the way through them.