One in 10 Brazilian mines may be abandoned, study finds

One in 10 Brazilian mines may be abandoned, study finds

BRAZIL-MINING/ (PIX):One in 10 Brazilian mines may be abandoned, study finds

Illegal mining on Indigenous lands in Brazil dropped under Lula: report

Under President Lula, illegal mining destroyed 4,219 hectares of Amazon rainforest in areas demarcated as protected Indigenous land by the state, where deforestation is a crime

The gold mining industry in Bolivia is experiencing a serious crisis due to fuel shortages, which has reduced production by 50% in recent weeks. Minister of Mining and Metallurgy Alejandro Santos confirmed that state, private and cooperative companies have been affected by the lack of diesel and gasoline, essential for operating heavy machinery and moving materials in the mining areas.

By Carolina Bataier — Brazil de Fato Mining activities destroyed 4,219 hectares of forest in Indigenous Lands (TIs) in Brazil between 2023 and 2024, equivalent to six thousand soccer fields. The data, released this Tuesday (8) by Greenpeace, indicate that environmental inspection and disintrusion actions, which consist of the removal of [...]

Illegal mining: this is how the government seeks to combat it with the “deregulatory shock” Illegal mining moves 40 times more money than the budget for the General Elections 2026, warned Nicolás Zevallos, director of Public Affairs at the Institute of Criminology. “The illegal economy mobilizes to change S/ 45 billion, that is 40 times more than what is going to be spent of the process as an operational issue. Understand what we are facing, it …

A new report by Greenpeace Brazil, Toxic Gold, reveals that illegal gold mining has destroyed more than 4,000 hectares of Amazon rainforest in Brazil over the past two years, affecting indigenous territories in particular.Despite Lula's government operations, activity has not decreased: it has simply moved away.A total of 4,219 hectares of plant cover, equivalent to 4,000 football fields, have been lost.The analysis, based on satellite images be…