Gold mining in Brazil (redirect from Garimpeiro)
lasted until the late 1800s. Present-day village residents known as garimpeiros still try to make a living from gold mining. The Amazon rainforest is...
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O Garimpeiro is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Bernardo Guimarães. It was first published in 1872. In 1920 it was made into a film titled O Garimpeiro...
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all diamond colors. The Moussaieff Red was discovered by a Brazilian garimpeiro named Ze Tatu in a manual digging in the district of Major Porto in 1989...
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Artisanal mining (redirect from Garimpeiros)
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a blanket term for a type of subsistence mining involving a miner who may or may not be officially employed by...
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O Garimpeiro is a 1920 Brazilian silent drama film directed by and starring Vittorio Capellaro. It is based on the 1870s novel O Garimpeiro by Bernardo...
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migrants. Illegal and ecologically destructive gold mining by Brazilian garimpeiros is a chronic issue in the remote interior rain forest of French Guiana...
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endangered. In the mid-1970s, garimpeiros (small independent gold-diggers) started to enter the Yanomami country. Where these garimpeiros settled, they killed...
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the discovery of diamonds in 1844 led to large influx of "washers" (garimpeiros) until the still-larger deposits in South Africa came to light. A smaller...
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Press agent Feature film Après l'océan Olga Feature film Orpailleur (Garimpeiro, The Gold Forest) Yann Feature film 2009 Mensch Helena Feature film 2010...
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Brazil a century earlier. Secondly, people referred to as faiscadores or garimpeiros illegally prospected and mined for gold, dodging Portuguese taxes on...
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