By Kátia Brasil, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
Aviator and miner José Altino Machado, now 79 years old, was known in the country as the person responsible for the three largest invasions by miners in the regions of Xitei and Surucucu at the Yanomami Indigenous Land in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, in Roraima. With...
By Piero Locatelli and Guilherme Henrique, from Repórter Brasil |
07/07/21
It is not just the sale of gold illegally mined from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory that fills the pockets of those associated to gold mines. Pilots and aircraft owners working in the area have also been getting richer, some earning as much as R$ 200,000 a week,...
By Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
The scene does not buzz with activity like the human ant-farms that were the hallmark of mining at Serra Pelada, in Pará. At the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima, illegal mining destroys the Amazon forest in a more scattered, but no less vicious manner. Gold mining...
Por Maria Fernanda Ribeiro e Clara Britto, da Amazônia Real |
24/06/21
Na capital de Roraima, Boa Vista, parte do ouro extraído ilegalmente na TI Yanomami circula livremente por entre dezenas de joalherias. Um tradicional centro desses pequenos comércios é a chamada Rua do Ouro, onde muitos garimpeiros vão vender o que extraíram. O clima...
Por Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, da Amazônia Real |
24/06/21
A visão não é a de um formigueiro humano como no garimpo de Serra Pelada, no Pará. Na Terra Indígena Yanomami, em Roraima, o garimpo ilegal destrói a floresta amazônica de forma pulverizada, mas não menos feroz. Os núcleos de mineração de ouro se dispersam ao longo...
