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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.
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 ...
SUCUNDURI, Brazil (Reuters) - Deep in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil is fighting destructive wildcat gold mining as it spreads from Indigenous lands into government-protected conservation areas.
"How Illegal Diamond Mining Threatens Brazil's Indigenous Communities". InSight Crime; Boadle, Anthony (1 February 2023). "Brazil readies task force to expel miners from Yanomami lands, officials say". Reuters; Bourne, Richard (22 April 2008). Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far. University of California Press. pp. 182–.
As of that month illegal mining had been 78,51% down from the previous year according to a report by the Brazilian federal government. [51] Small grocery chains located in northern Brazil were found to be supplying food to illegal gold miners operating in the Brazilian-Venezuelan border.
The Pemon nation is divided by the border between Venezuela and Brazil, resulting in Pemon refugees regularly crossing the border into Brazil for safety and medical care. The conflict is centred on disputes over mining in the Orinoco Mining Arc , [ 1 ] a 112,000 km 2 area of the Amazon Rainforest rich in gold, diamonds, coltan, and uranium, [ 2 ...
Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest that has been criss-crossed with informal airstrips and contaminated with ...
The Yanomami people, one of the largest Indigenous groups in Brazil, have seen their lands increasingly threatened by illegal deforestation and mining activities. Satellite data shows over 2,000 hectares of their land have been deforested for illegal gold mining between 2019 and 2022.