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...

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...

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...

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...

migrants. Illegal and ecologically destructive gold mining by Brazilian garimpeiros is a chronic issue in the remote interior rain forest of French Guiana...

Press agent Feature film Après l'océan Olga Feature film Orpailleur (Garimpeiro, The Gold Forest) Yann Feature film 2009 Mensch Helena Feature film 2010...

endangered. In the mid-1970s, garimpeiros (small independent gold-diggers) started to enter the Yanomami country. Where these garimpeiros settled, they killed...

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...

In Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, and French Guiana, workers are called garimpeiros. These workers are not required to claim responsibility for their social...

Brazil a century earlier. Secondly, people referred to as faiscadores or garimpeiros illegally prospected and mined for gold, dodging Portuguese taxes on...