Maiden drilling for lithium-bearing pegmatites underway at Summit Minerals’ Barra project in Brazil’s mineral-rich Borborema ...

Pure quartz, or “rock crystal” from Brazil. Source: Didier Descouens ... The beginning stages of commercial quartz mining bear a lot of resemblance to many of the mining methods we’ve ...

According to a study released Friday by MapBiomas, a website that gathers data and information on Brazilian biomes, from the soil to the Amazon, including mining, fire, and water, illegal mining ...

Brazil's mining firm Vale has warned that another dam is at risk of bursting months after the collapse of a similar structure killed more than 230 people. The dam near the south-eastern town of ...

Brazilian operation against illegal gold mining on Munduruku land in Amazon rainforest JACAREACANGA, Brazil (Reuters) - The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the ...

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 ...

The collapsed dam at an iron ore mine was managed by Samarco, co-owned by BHP and Brazilian miner Vale. At the time of the disaster, BHP had global headquarters in the UK as well as in Australia.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police on Friday charged 20 people with rock salt mining in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio that destroyed five urban neighborhoods and forced tens of ...