Reporter: Ígor Passarini Editor: Maurício Angelo “The governor is calling it the Lithium Valley, when in fact it is the Jequitinhonha Valley. A valley that…
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Among corruption and human rights violations, Swiss trader Glencore becomes main owner of Brazilian aluminum
Brazilian aluminum has since the end of 2023 a new major owner: the Swiss company Glencore, the world’s largest commodities trader, bought Vale’s 40% stake…
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REVEALED: Records show dozens of changes in Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN) tailings dams in Pará and communities fear disasters
Mineração Rio do Norte, controlled by a pool of large global mining companies and now led by Swiss trader Glencore, is Brazil’s largest producer of…
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Despite Brumadinho dam collapse, the mining sector has earned more than R$1 trillion in Brazil since 2019
The death of 270 people caused by the collapse of the Vale dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, which turns five years old this January 25,…
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Mining companies may have evaded R$ 35 billion in royalties over the last five years
By Pablo Pires Fernandes Editor: Maurício Angelo The tax evasion hole caused by mining companies in the compensation tax due in Brazil may have reached…
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Divided by mining: indigenous people in Pará fight to maintain their identity against the railroad that feeds the global steel industry
By Maurício Angelo and Sarah Sax Photos by Ingrid Barros Seen from above, the Indigenous Territory Mãe Maria is a 62,000 hectare square of green…
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Mining profits at the expense of Amazon rainforest
Story by Jonathan Watts, Patrick Greenfield and Bibi Van Der Zee, originally published on The Guardian The Mining Observatory contributed with research and a interview…
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In central Brazil, canadian company Aura Minerals ignores quilombola concerns over gold project
Original story by Sandra Silva for Mining Observatory Editing by Maurício Angelo Translated by Roberto Cataldo/Mongabay Canadian mining company Aura Minerals has celebrated high profits…
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Pure Dynamite: Report produced by Mining Observatory and Smoke Signal reviews the explosive legacy of the Bolsonaro government’s mining policy
Today, Mining Observatory (Observatório da Mineração) and the socio-environmental monitoring organization Smoke Signal [Sinal de Fumaça] launch the report “Pure Dynamite: how Bolsonaro’s Government (2019-2022)…
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There is no proof of the 6.5 billion euros that Renova, Vale, BHP and Samarco claim to have paid in reparations for Mariana
Exclusive story by Maurício Angelo, translated by Martin Mantxo Also available in spanish: No hay pruebas de los 6,5 mil millones de euros que Renova,…
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Mining companies retreat after pressure to Brazil leave prior consultation with indigenous people
Led by the Federation of Industries of the State of Pará (FIEPA), unions sent a letter to President Jair Bolsonaro in early July asking Brazil to…
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Alongside the railroad of the biggest iron ore mine in the world: poverty, pollution, deaths and human rights violations
In Brazil’s Maranhão the state, which has the lowest household income in Brazil, communities face the impacts of a railroad built and operated around the…
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Elon Musk eyes on the Amazon as Bolsonaro government tries to liquidate Latin America’s only chip factory
Original story by Maurício Angelo, translated by: Gabriela Sarmet Literally destroying a cutting-edge technology company, a reference in Latin America and one of the few in…
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Investment funds injected US$ 54 billion into mining companies with interests in Indigenous territories in the Amazon
The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), alongside environmental and human rights organization Amazon Watch with the support of The Mining Observatory, launched “Complicity…
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A Deadly Ring of Coal: Vale’s poisoned gift to Mozambique
By Estacio Valoi, from Mozambique, in partnership with Justiça Ambiental* A versão em português dessa matéria foi publicada pela Justiça Nos Trilhos 15 years ago,…
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Foreign ambassadors’ influence on Bolsonaro’s strategy to authorize mining on indigenous lands
Original story by Maurício Angelo, translated by: Gabriela Sarmet Foreign ambassadors working in Brazil are frequently consulted by Jair Bolsonaro’s government on policies for the mineral…
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook are part of the group who asked brazilian government to ditch environmental regulations
Some of the world’s biggest technology companies are behind a Brazilian lobby group that made a project used as a basis by the Ministry of…
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Vale statement of giving up prospect on indigenous land in the Amazon is part of a broad strategy: we show what is behind
Vale has just announced that it will file with the National Mining Agency (ANM) the withdrawal of all requests it has to mine in indigenous…
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Vale and BHP use the Renova Foundation to impose a indemnity system across the Rio Doce basin
Original story by Maurício Angelo, translated by: Gabriela Sarmet Almost six years after the dam collapse of Vale and BHP in Minas Gerais, the Renova Foundation,…
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After 6 years of a ongoing disaster, Vale and BHP try a new deal for Mariana
Original story by Maurício Angelo, translated by: Gabriela Sarmet Mediated by the National Council of Justice (CNJ), a new agreement involving Brazil’s biggest environmental disaster…
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