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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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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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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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…
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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
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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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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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…
Leia mais Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook are part of the group who asked brazilian government to ditch environmental regulations
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…
Leia mais Vale statement of giving up prospect on indigenous land in the Amazon is part of a broad strategy: we show what is behind
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,…
Leia mais 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 Mediated by the National Council of Justice (CNJ), a new agreement involving Brazil’s biggest environmental disaster…
Leia mais After 6 years of a ongoing disaster, Vale and BHP try a new deal for Mariana
This story was first published in portuguese on UOL Notícias, a partner of the Mining Observatory Information leaks in inspection operations by different public agencies…
Leia mais Leaks of operations favors criminal networks in illegal mining
An exclusive report by the Mining Observatory shows that, since 2008, 333 workers have been rescued in mines in Brazil under slave-labor conditions. There were…
Leia mais Revealed: in 13 years, operations have rescued 333 workers from slavery in brazilian mines
A group of Samarco creditors accuses brazilian Vale and the anglo-australian BHP, the company’s owners, of making financial maneuvers using the Renova Foundation, created to…
Leia mais Vale and BHP: reimbursement of R$ 24 billion involving Samarco and the Mariana disaster is challenged in court
A leak of tailings dams from the mining company Taboca, owned by the peruvian group Minsur, which operates in Presidente Figueiredo (AM), 300km from Amazonas…
Leia mais Peruvian mining group Minsur pollutes rivers in Waimiri-Atroari indigenous land in the Amazon
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accepted a complaint from union entities about the agglomerations of workers and the violations of rights during the…
Leia mais IACHR to investigate brazilian government and mining companies for human rights violations during the pandemic based on stories by the Mining Observatory