MINING
Brazil’s mining sector lacks oversight and knowledge
Despite its size, Brazil’s mining sector lacks regulation and oversight. Photo: Rocha Ribeiro/Shutterstock
According to a new platform launched by the MapBiomas environmental network, roughly one-third of all active mining operations in Brazil show signs of irregularity. The monitoring tool aggregates records from the National Mining Agency (ANM) dating back to 1934 and cross-checks them with annual land-use maps derived from satellite imagery. Of 257,591 active mining processes, 95,740 present “some type of inconsistency,” in the words of the project’s team.
MapBiomas found that…
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