A groundbreaking new report on the cumulative climate risks of mining in Brazil warns that Pará —the host state for COP30 in 2025— is the…
Leia mais New Mining Observatory Report Reveals Pará as Brazil’s Most Climate-Exposed Mining State Amid COP30 Preparations
By Fábio Bispo (data, graphics and text) and Lúcio Lambranho (research, interviews and text) Editing: Maurício Angelo Translated by Gabriela Sarmet Food production, the reduction…
Leia mais Exclusive research reveals that greed for critical minerals is invading land reform settlements, mostly in the Amazon
Story: Lucio Lambranho Editing: Maurício Angelo Photos: Isis Medeiros Translated by Gabriela Sarmet A bill by the Araçuaí City Council in Minas Gerais is attempting…
Leia mais Quilombola communities ignored and attempt to reduce protected area: Atlas Lithium is at the centre of the race for ‘white gold’ in Brazil
Story by Lucio Lambranho Translated by Gabriela Sarmet Editing: Maurício Angelo Brazilian companies are benefiting from authorisations to extract marine substances without environmental licensing. And…
Leia mais REVEALED: Loopholes in legislation allow mineral extraction on the seabed without environmental licences
Story by Lucio Lambranho Translated by Gabriela Sarmet Editing: Maurício Angelo In addition to a series of measures to try to reduce the rights of…
Leia mais Strategic minerals for the energy transition become argument to approve mining on indigenous lands
Story by Lucio Lambranho Translated by Gabriela Sarmet Edited by Maurício Angelo A research carried out by the Mining Observatory reveals an exponential increase in…
Leia mais Demand skyrockets and half of all mining requests in the Brazilian offshore were made in the last 5 years
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…
Leia mais The greenwashing behind Brazil’s lithium boom
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…
Leia mais Among corruption and human rights violations, Swiss trader Glencore becomes main owner of Brazilian aluminum
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…
Leia mais REVEALED: Records show dozens of changes in Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN) tailings dams in Pará and communities fear disasters
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,…
Leia mais Despite Brumadinho dam collapse, the mining sector has earned more than R$1 trillion in Brazil since 2019
By Pablo Pires Fernandes Editor: Maurício Angelo The tax evasion hole caused by mining companies in the compensation tax due in Brazil may have reached…
Leia mais Mining companies may have evaded R$ 35 billion in royalties over the last five years
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…
Leia mais Divided by mining: indigenous people in Pará fight to maintain their identity against the railroad that feeds the global steel industry
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…
Leia mais Mining profits at the expense of Amazon rainforest
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…
Leia mais In central Brazil, canadian company Aura Minerals ignores quilombola concerns over gold project
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)…
Leia mais Pure Dynamite: Report produced by Mining Observatory and Smoke Signal reviews the explosive legacy of the Bolsonaro government’s mining policy
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,…
Leia mais There is no proof of the 6.5 billion euros that Renova, Vale, BHP and Samarco claim to have paid in reparations for Mariana
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…
Leia mais Mining companies retreat after pressure to Brazil leave prior consultation with indigenous people
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…
Leia mais Alongside the railroad of the biggest iron ore mine in the world: poverty, pollution, deaths and human rights violations
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…
Leia mais Elon Musk eyes on the Amazon as Bolsonaro government tries to liquidate Latin America’s only chip factory
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…
Leia mais Investment funds injected US$ 54 billion into mining companies with interests in Indigenous territories in the Amazon