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Stop for gold mining

The Brazilian Federal prosecutors have asked a few days ago, the Ministry of Environment of the state of Pará to supply the planned gold mining by the Canadian mining group Belo Sun Mining permit no license. The Group Belo Sun Mining, based in Toronto hoped with the project on the Xingu River in the immediate vicinity of the Belo Monte dam. Degradation of up to 4.1 million ounces over a period of twelve years For this to be the largest gold mine in Brazil.

The project named "Volta Grande" is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2013 in the field of so-called "big loop" of the Xingu River. Through the construction of the controversial Belo Monte dam is the area to be drained up to 70 percent. Only by entering as a result of dam construction reclamation of river bed on 100 kilometers of open pit mining in the open is economically possible. The blogger Telma Monteiro had made the project last year publicly. read more?