-
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...
- 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 an 1872
novel by
Brazilian writer Bernardo Guimarães. In 1920, it was made into a film
titled O
Garimpeiro. Aquino,
Suzana Maria de (2014)...
- migrants.
Illegal and
ecologically destructive gold
mining by
Brazilian garimpeiros is a
chronic issue in the
remote interior rain
forest of
French Guiana...
-
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 emplo**** by...
- endangered. In the mid-1970s,
garimpeiros (small
independent gold-diggers)
started to
enter the
Yanomami country.
Where these garimpeiros settled, they killed...
- successful. However,
after each
operation ends,
Brazilian miners,
known as
garimpeiros, return. Soon
after Operation Harpie Reinforce began, an altercation...
- 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...
- 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...
