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Illegal mining can be a subsistence activity, as is the case with artisanal mining, or it can belong to large-scale organized crime, [2] spearheaded by illegal mining syndicates. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On an international level, approximately 80 percent of small-scale mining operations can be categorized as illegal. [ 5 ]
Authorities say the program, meant to regularize the artisanal miners, has caused illegal mining to multiply and legislators argued in Congress that Mucho had shown a lack of interest and/or ...
A series of arrests in 2023 over illegal mining between 2015 and 2022 cited the cost associated with environmental damage at Rp 271 trillion (c. US$17 billion). [23] Large numbers of pepper plantations, the province's other major export commodity , have been converted to illegal mines.
Sand smuggling is the cross-border environmental crime [1] of illegal transportation of often illegally extracted natural sand and gravel. [2] While sand smuggling and illegal mining are global concerns, they are especially acute in Asia, where continuing urbanization and the region’s large construction boom are driving the increasing demand for sand. [3]
Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil's Amazon to the United States ...
An Indigenous group in Brazil said Wednesday its members detained 12 people for allegedly mining illegally in the Amazon and handed them over to police. The non-profit Urihi Associação Yanomami ...
The Belekeri port scam relates to 3.5 million tons of confiscated iron ore that was exported illegally from Belekeri port near Karwar in Karnataka. [1] After Deputy Conservator of Forests R. Gokul seized the ore and the high court refused to permit it to be exported, a large part of it was surreptitiously exported from the port.
Today, the Yanomami and local officials estimate there are more than 20,000 illegal miners on their land. Amazon gold rush: illegal mining threatens Brazil's last major isolated tribe Skip to main ...