‘Gold library’ helps Brazil crack down on Amazon’s illegal mining: catalog of ore samples' chemical 'fingerprints' can help authorities identify the origin of seized or suspicious gold

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dredging rafts operate at full steam. So now, when they need to confirm the origin of a suspicious sample, they can simply analyze it and compare the results to Ouroteca to know with a high degree of confidence where the gold comes from. Once the gold is tagged, all the subsequent transactions can be tracked digitally and recorded in a blockchain, a distributed database where records can’t be altered

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