Revenues totaled BRL 248.2 bi, down 0.7% from the previous year’s BRL 250 bi. Iron ore accounted for 71% of Brazil’s exports.
The collapse of Vale’s ore tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, took place five years ago on Jan. 25.
The president met with ministers a year after the humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami indigenous territory came to light.
The freezing aimed to ensure that new properties are included in a compensation program for the residents of Bom Parto, one of the districts affected by the rock salt mining in Alagoas state.
The mining-affected groups were primarily indigenous people (15.1%), workers (12.1%), urban population (9.7%), and small rural landowners (8.3%), the report reads.
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