Reports out of Brazil say a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Metal Corp. of Japan, Bishimetal Corp., has offered to buy the South American country’s US$115-billion foreign debt in return for mining rights to the Amazon’s gold deposits. The gold fields are estimated to contain gold worth US$260 billion at current prices. Past proposals to cancel or exchange a portion of the debt to save the Amazon rain forest have been dismissed by Brazil.
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