Brazil Launches New Phase in the Fight Against Illegal Garimpo
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In contrast to the increase in operations to combat illegal garimpo in the Amazon, the Brazilian state does not have an effective traceability system capable of attesting to the real origin of strategic minerals such as gold and cassiterite. It is what prosecutors, experts, geologists and leaders of the sector and civil society heard by GLOBO point out. For them, the country still depends on self-declaratory documents. Without checking at source…
The Brazilian Federal Police opened a scientific analysis laboratory Tuesday to track the origin of gold, as a way to confront the illegal garimpo and fight environmental crimes in Amazonia.
Laboratory allows to reduce from about two years to about two months the time needed to carry out the expertise, which previously depended on partnerships with external institutions.
In order to strengthen the fight against illegal garimpo and environmental crimes in the Amazon, the Federal Police (PF) inaugurated, on Tuesday (3), the Laboratory of Forensic Geochemistry for Mineral Traceability. The structure was mounted at the National Institute of Criminalism (INC), in Brasília. The initiative integrates the Program Ouro Alvo, supported by the Amazon Fund within the framework of the Amazon Plan: Security and Sovereignty (A…
In order to strengthen the fight against illegal garimpo and environmental crimes in the Amazon, the Federal Police (PF) inaugurated, on Tuesday (3), the Laboratory of Forensic Geochemistry for Mineral Traceability. The structure was mounted at the National Institute of Criminalism (INC), in Brasília. The initiative integrates the Program Ouro Alvo, supported by the Amazon [...]
New scientific structure analyzes samples to discover the exact origin of the ore and reinforces actions to combat the Garimpo in the Amazon
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