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  2. List of countries by gold production - Wikipedia

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    2012 world gold output (in kilograms) Trends in five of the top seven gold-producing countries. This is a list of countries by gold production in 2024. [1] Until 2006, South Africa was the world's largest gold producer.

  3. Gold mining in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Gold mining in Brazil has taken place continually in the Amazon since the 1690s, and has been important to the economies of Brazil and surrounding countries. In the late 17th century, amid the search for indigenous people to use in the slave trade , Portuguese colonists began to recognize the abundance of gold in the Amazon, triggering what ...

  4. Mining in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, Brazil's figures were as follows: it was the world's largest producer of niobium (88.9 thousand tons); [2] the 2nd largest world producer of tantalum (430 tons); [3] the 2nd largest world producer of iron ore (405 million tons); [4] the 4th largest world producer of manganese (1.74 million tons); [5] the 4th largest world producer of bauxite (34 million tons); [6] the 4th largest ...

  5. Brazil cost - Wikipedia

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    Brazil cost (Portuguese: Custo Brasil [ˈkustu bɾaˈziw]) refers to the increased operational costs associated with doing business in Brazil, [1] making Brazilian goods and services more expensive compared to other countries. [2] There are several factors that contribute to the extra cost, including: High levels of public deficits; [3]

  6. Indigenous mining complicates Brazil's fight against illegal gold

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    Despite visible poverty, Jacareacanga's per capita GDP is 90,000 reais ($15,157.38), higher than Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest metropolis, a sure sign of the illegal wealth gold mining is generating.

  7. Brazil probes Mercado Libre sales of mercury used by illegal ...

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    Public prosecutors chasing illegal gold mining in Brazil's Amazon region on Wednesday opened an investigation into on-line sales of mercury through Mercado Libre, Latin America's largest e ...

  8. List of mines in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    2 Gold. 3 Iron ore. 4 Manganese. 5 Tungsten. 6 See also. Toggle the table of contents. List of mines in Brazil. ... This is a list of mines in Brazil organized by ...

  9. Two New Yorkers tried to leave Brazil with 77 pounds of gold ...

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