{"id":556153,"date":"2025-07-17T10:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=556153"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:07:58","slug":"more-mining-in-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/more-mining-in-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"More mining in the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_556080\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556080 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rpf-notas-garimpo-Terra_Indigena_Kayapo-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rpf-notas-garimpo-Terra_Indigena_Kayapo-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rpf-notas-garimpo-Terra_Indigena_Kayapo-800-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rpf-notas-garimpo-Terra_Indigena_Kayapo-800-700x465.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rpf-notas-garimpo-Terra_Indigena_Kayapo-800-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Ibama\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span>Illegal small-scale mining in the Kayap\u00f3 Indigenous Reserve, Par\u00e1<span class=\"media-credits\">Ibama\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The area occupied by industrial mining in Brazil increased fivefold from 1985 to 2022, growing from approximately 360 square kilometers (km<sup>2<\/sup>) to 1,800 km<sup>2<\/sup>. Meanwhile, artisanal small-scale mining, mainly for gold, expanded to a much greater extent: multiplying 12-fold from 218 km<sup>2<\/sup> in 1985 to 2,627 km<sup>2<\/sup> in 2022, according to a survey by researchers from the Federal University of Par\u00e1 (UFPA). Between 2019 and 2022, the industrial mining area grew by 4%, while the artisanal small-scale mining area increased by 55%. According to the survey, at least 91% of all artisanal small-scale mining in Brazil takes place in the Amazon, mainly in the Kayap\u00f3, Munduruku, and Yanomami Indigenous reserves. The study also found that at least 77% of extraction sites showed explicit signs of illegal activity in 2022. The municipalities of Itaituba (710 km<sup>2<\/sup>), Jacareacanga (195 km<sup>2<\/sup>), S\u00e3o Felix do Xingu (101 km<sup>2<\/sup>), and Ouril\u00e2ndia do Norte (91 km<sup>2<\/sup>), all in the state of Par\u00e1, account for almost half (41.7%) of the country\u2019s artisanal small-scale mining area. The intensification of artisanal small-scale mining in the Amazon is recent, since 41% of the area (980 km<sup>2<\/sup>) only began being exploited within the last five years (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-54220-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/a>, November 13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Industrial mining grew fivefold in Brazil between 1985 and 2022","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[200,239],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-556153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-environment","tag-geography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556154,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556153\/revisions\/556154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556153"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=556153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}