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BALI, Indonesia — Satellite imagery has detected deforestation in a gold mining concession in Indonesia that overlaps with the habitat of the most threatened great ape in the world. U.S.-based environmental advocacy group Mighty Earth said it had detected 13 hectares (32 acres) of forest loss within the Martabe gold mining concession in North Sumatra province this year, which comes on top of the 100 hectares (247 acres) of deforestation detected there from 2016 to 2020. U.K. conglomerate Jardine Matheson (Jardines) bought the mine in 2018 through its Indonesian subsidiary, Astra International,…