brazil dredging and thier problems

[bill-costa rica]

a story and pictures from brazil. it is sad the way government treat miners

Fight against illegal Amazon gold mining intensifies - AOL

follow the link for the story and 22 photos

bill/cr

 

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[russau]

Heck and I thought I had it bad............

 

[Goldwasher]

Crazy they just burn the gear and camps. The natives gained their official state in '92. They do deserve protection and relief from this kind of trespass. Zero rules and regs means the people suffer and the miners do as they please, because they can disapear into the jungle. Once stuff like this hits the first vvorld media every other part of the story is erased vvith the exception of " MINERS BAD"

 

[Hoser John]

OMG GREAT PR...................ungodly pics.................gold fever is a nasty mistress that reduces IQ almost as fast as playing with mercury wrong...What a black eye for the industry. The 1% get the majority condemned as usual-John

 

[bill-costa rica]

the big river picture with all the tailing breaking surface dredged with serious POS dredges. that would take a hell of a lot of work . working for 3 months under ideal conditions with a 10 inch in a smaller river we were only able to move about 60 yards up river. it looked about the same.

 

[Clay Diggins]

There is a lot more to this story than "illegal" mining. Read about how Brazil sold permits to these miners and then made it illegal to mine their permitted areas.

The Mining Code of 1967 creates the criteria to claim mineral rights. It also defines rights of land owners and areas available for mining. In 1989, a law introduced the mining permit for small-scale mining activities, to either Brazilian citizens on an individual basis, or to associations constituted as a mining company. Mining permits are issued by the DNPM (National Department of Mineral Production).

In 2006, the Federal Government created seven Nature Conservation Units in the Tapajós region. Many of these units overlap with the small-scale mining reserve of Tapajós, created in 1983 by the Ministry of Mining. By creating these Conservation Units, all mining activities in this area became instantly illegal. Many miners have obtained a mining license before 2006; however, their licenses have not been withdrawn. Also, new applications are still being processed at the office of DNPM. The situation is confusing and causes unrest among the small-scale miners in Tapajós.

Include some nonsense about how small miners use thousands of dollars of mercury on their hobbled together dredges to mine hundreds of dollars of gold and you've got a new Izzy fantasy story for the green press.

Heavy Pans

 

[Hoser John]

Hahahahaha sounds like friggn' Kalif...they sold us permits in January 2008 and then banned it a couple a months later sic sic sic...John

 

[goldenIrishman]

Looks like governments and environmentalists are the same around the world. To use Hosers' term.... SIC SIC SIC