Illegal mine collapse buries gold workers in the Venezuelan Amazon
The collapse of an illegal mine in a remote region of the Venezuelan Amazon buried gold workers, leaving many injured and feared dead.
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Brazil’s Mura people back Amazon potash mine
Mining News Pro - Canada’s Brazil Potash has scored a key win in its battle to build its $2.5bn Autazes project in the state of Amazonas as the local indigenous Mura people have voted in favour of the development, said the company’s CEO Matt Simpson.
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Ecuadorean votes could bar oil output in Amazon reserve, mining near Quito
Mining News Pro - Ecuadoreans will decide in two August referendums whether oil and mining projects in key regions of the country can continue, weighing Indigenous and environmental concerns against billions in potential lost income.
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Brazil’s Mura people report threats amid pressure to approve Amazon potash mine
Mining News Pro - Leaders of Brazil’s Mura people said on Friday tensions have risen in the Autazes region where they live after a federal agency crew visited the area to discuss potentially demarcating their ancestral land, which overlaps with an area where a Canadian company wants to build a potash mine.
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Illegal Amazon miners are expanding into copper as prices surge
Mining News Pro - Authorities in Brazil are cracking down on illegal copper mining in the Amazon as high prices of the wiring metal attract black-market operators who normally focus on gold.
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Opening up protected areas in the Amazon to mining may lead to massive forest losses
Mining News Pro - A model developed by Brazilian researchers shows that opening up protected areas in the Amazon to mining projects would lead to massive losses of forest coverage.
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Brazil central bank recruited to save Amazon from illegal mining
Mining News Pro - The threat to the Brazilian Amazon posed by illegal mining is so big that the formal mining industry is trying to get the country’s central bank involved.
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Illegal gold mining in Amazon equivalent to half of Brazil’s production
Mining News Pro - Between 2015 and 2020, Brazil traded 229 tonnes of gold with evidence of illegality, equivalent to almost half of the gold produced and exported by the country, according to a new report from NGO Instituto Escolhas.
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In Bolivia’s Amazon, wildcat gold mining boom stokes tension over environment
Mining News Pro - In Bolivia’s Amazon tensions are rising over a boom in wildcat gold mining that is driving a surge in imports of mercury used to extract the precious metal and is sparking conflict between small-scale prospectors and local indigenous groups.
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Illegal gold rush is squeezing native people in Brazil’s Amazon
Mining News Pro -An illegal gold rush in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest is fueling a surge in destruction of land occupied by South America’s largest group of native people who still live in relative isolation, the Yanomami.
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Highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution now found in Amazon rainforest due to gold mining
Mining News Pro - After performing the first-ever measurement of terrestrial deposits of atmospheric methylmercury – the most toxic form of mercury – an international team of researchers found that the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution in the world are now found in pristine areas of the Amazonian rainforest.
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Mine ponds cause toxic mercury pollution in the Peruvian Amazon
Mining News Pro - A recent study by researchers in Peru and the US found that, in the past 35 years, there has been a 670% increase in the extent of pits and ponds created by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Brazil plans to allow mining in Amazonian indigenous reserves
Mining News Pro - Brazil is pushing ahead with plans to allow mining in the indigenous reserves of the Amazon rain forest and will send a bill to Congress later this month to regulate the activity, according to the country’s minister for mines and energy.
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Buying iron ore is getting more like shopping on Amazon
Mining News Pro - The world’s biggest iron ore miners are looking for novel ways of satisfying their customers and protecting market share in the $150 billion global industry.
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Amazon gold and army suspicion fuel Bolsonaro’s rainforest rage
Mining News Pro - Among the tens of thousands of Brazilians who descended on the Amazonian goldmine of Serra Pelada in the 1980s was Percy Geraldo Bolsonaro, father of the current president, Jair Bolsonaro.
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Peruvian president says fight against illegal mining in the Amazon is ongoing
Mining News Pro - Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra shared a video on his social media channels where he announces that authorities are going to have a permanent presence in the Amazon to guard against the development of illegal mining activities.
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Brazil dismantles illegal mines in the Amazon
Mining News Pro - In an operation that lasted a couple of days and that involved four airplanes, police officials, forest rangers and the National Guard, Brazilian authorities dismantled a number of open-pit gold and cassiterite mines operating illegally in the heart of the Amazon.
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