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Gold mining in Brazil has taken place continually in the Amazon since the 1690s, and has been important to the economies of Brazil and surrounding countries. In the late 17th century, amid the search for indigenous people to use in the slave trade , Portuguese colonists began to recognize the abundance of gold in the Amazon, triggering what ...
As of that month illegal mining had been 78,51% down from the previous year according to a report by the Brazilian federal government. [51] Small grocery chains located in northern Brazil were found to be supplying food to illegal gold miners operating in the Brazilian-Venezuelan border.
Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil's Amazon to the United States ...
The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has made Brazil's task of cracking down on wildcat mining in the Amazon far ...
The Altamira Gathering was a five-day media conference organized by the Kayapo people in an effort to raise awareness of the ecological and political atrocities committed by the Brazilian government and by illegal gold mining also.
In 2019, Brazil's figures were as follows: it was the world's largest producer of niobium (88.9 thousand tons); [2] the 2nd largest world producer of tantalum (430 tons); [3] the 2nd largest world producer of iron ore (405 million tons); [4] the 4th largest world producer of manganese (1.74 million tons); [5] the 4th largest world producer of bauxite (34 million tons); [6] the 4th largest ...
The Yanomami people, one of the largest Indigenous groups in Brazil, have seen their lands increasingly threatened by illegal deforestation and mining activities. Satellite data shows over 2,000 hectares of their land have been deforested for illegal gold mining between 2019 and 2022.
An Indigenous group in Brazil said Wednesday its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police. The non-profit Urihi Associação Yanomami ...