Miners known as “Maraqueros” ready a rustic type of hydraulic jet known locally as a “Chupadera”, after hauling the device about 16-meters deep into a crater at a gold mine process in La Pampa in Peru's Madre de Dios region. A new threat now looms for the estimated 20,000 wildcat miners who toil in huge scar of denuded rainforest known as La Pampa. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
