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Mining in Brazil, the Glossary

Mining in Brazil is centered on the extraction of iron (the second largest global iron ore exporter), copper, gold, aluminum (bauxite-one of the 5 biggest world's productors), manganese (one of the 5 biggest world's productors), tin (one of the biggest world's productors), niobium (concentrates 98% of the known niobium reserves in the world), and nickel.^[1]

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Agate

Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Amazonas (Brazilian state)

Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the north-western corner of the country.

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Amethyst

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz.

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Ametista do Sul

Ametista do Sul is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Anthracite

Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre.

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Aquamarine (gem)

Aquamarine is a pale-blue to light-green variety of the beryl family, with its name relating to water and sea.

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Araxá

Araxá is a municipality in Western Minas Gerais state, Brazil.

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Bahia

Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, with a population of 6 million.

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Brazilian Gold Rush

The Brazilian Gold Rush was a gold rush that started in the 1690s, in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil in the Portuguese Empire.

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Chromite

Chromite is a crystalline mineral composed primarily of iron(II) oxide and chromium(III) oxide compounds.

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Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cr and atomic number 24.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Coal mining in Brazil

Coal mining in Brazil is the country's largest source of non-renewable energy, and is an important part of Brazil's energy economy.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Criciúma

Criciúma is a city in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.

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Diamond rush

A diamond rush is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area where diamonds were newly discovered.

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Emerald

Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.

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Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is a state in southeastern Brazil.

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Garnet

Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.

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Goiás

Goiás is a Brazilian state located in the Midwest region.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gold mining in Brazil

Gold mining in Brazil has taken place continually in the Amazon since the 1690s, and has been important to the economies of Brazil and surrounding countries.

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Gold rush

A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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Gongo Soco

Gongo Soco was a gold mine in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to the east of Belo Horizonte in the mid-19th century.

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Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais

Governador Valadares is a Brazilian municipality in the countryside of Minas Gerais.

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Graphite

Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Jasper

Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue.

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Lignite

Lignite (derived from Latin lignum meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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List of countries by bauxite production

This is a list of countries by bauxite production in 2023.

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List of countries by coal production

This is a list of countries by coal production ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2021.

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List of countries by copper production

This is a list of countries by mined copper production.

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List of countries by gold production

This is a list of countries by gold production in 2022.

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List of countries by iron ore production

This is a list of countries by iron ore production based on U.S. Geological Survey data.

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List of countries by nickel production

This is a list of countries by nickel production in 2022 based on data by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

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List of countries by tin production

This is a list of countries by tin production in 2019 based on Mineral Commodity Summary 2020.

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Lithium

Lithium is a chemical element; it has symbol Li and atomic number 3.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Manganese production by country

Manganese is a chemical element that is designated by the symbol Mn and has an atomic number of 25.

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Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso (–) is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region.

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Mato Grosso do Sul

Mato Grosso do Sul is one of Brazil's 27 federal units, located in the southern part of the Central-West Region, bordering five Brazilian states: Mato Grosso (to the north), Goiás and Minas Gerais (northeast), São Paulo (east) and Paraná (southeast); and two South America countries: Paraguay (south and southwestern) and Bolivia (west).

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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 census.

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Mining in Paraná

Mining in Paraná is a set of studies, research, knowledge, and theories regarding the mineralogical aspects of the state of Paraná, in Brazil.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Brazil

Also known as Brazil mining, Environmental impact of mining in Brazil, Gemstone industry in Brazil, History of mining in Brazil, Mineral industry of Brazil, Mining industry of Brazil.

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