Queimadas created a resistance front against the advance of mining, while advocating for their land and its environmental conservation. Part of a region considered the “water tank of Brazil ...

Brazil's government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining. The area, covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapa and ...

Autazes is known as the "land of milk and potassium" but plans for a giant potash mine are proving controversial As Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro seeks to authorise mining in ...

BHP Group, the world’s biggest miner, is looking to expand in Brazil as it seeks to move on from a 2015 mining disaster ... who took part in the negotiations as legal vice-president for Americas.

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.

The High Court in London will over several months examine whether BHP was in part responsible for the collapse in 2015 of a ...

Shares of Jaguar Mining (TSX ... the temporary shutdown of its Turmalina mine Brazil after nearby tailings pile failure had engulfed part of the mine infrastructure. According to Jaguar, a ...

Morgan Stanley analysts said it was unclear whether insurance will cover part ... mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. following the deadly dam burst last week at its jointly owned iron-ore mine in ...