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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...

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

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...

successful. However, after each operation ends, Brazilian miners, known as garimpeiros, return. Soon after Operation Harpie Reinforce began, an altercation...

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

The Guaire River Miners, also known as Guaire River Garimpeiros, is the name given to the people who search for metals in the Guaire River, a 72-kilometer-long...

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

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...

people were killed by a group of garimpeiros, or gold miners who mine the land illegally. In the first attack, the garimpeiros killed four or five young men...

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...

means that the garimpeiros were already sick. Mosquitos bit the garimpeiros and then bit us. That is how we got the disease. The garimpeiros also brought...

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

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...

January 27, 2023. Retrieved January 28, 2023. "Plano do Ibama para tirar garimpeiros de terra ianomâmi em seis meses não foi aplicado no governo Bolsonaro...

people were killed by a group of garimpeiros, or gold miners who mine the land illegally. In the first attack, the garimpeiros killed four or five young men...

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...

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

resulted in conflicts with the garimpeiros (illegal gold prospectors). In 1992, the Mining Cooperative of Garimpeiros of Lourenço (COOGAL) was founded...

Praça dos Garimpeiros-Miners' monument....

Villa Brazil (also Villa Brasil) is a garimpeiros (illegal gold prospectors) village in the Boven Saramacca resort of the Sipaliwini District of Suriname...