Brazil’s election of veteran politician Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on this weekend’s crucial runoff is a robust stand towards the insurance policies of his predecessor, the right-wing Jair Bolsonaro, and will have main impacts for the way forward for Brazilian mining. With a lot of Bolsonaro’s platform aimed toward increasing Brazilian {industry}, as much as and together with mining within the Amazon Rainforest, there’s hope that the election of Lula may deliver a component of environmental duty to the nationwide curiosity, albeit one which comes with issues about maximising revenue.
Past the 2 candidates, there’s additionally the prospect of their personalities and insurance policies trickling down into broader Brazilian politics. With the nation’s Congress extra right-leaning than its new president, the election is hardly going to be the top of discussions about the way forward for mining in Brazil, and as all international locations start to push tougher for a robust supply of home minerals, the election may show to be just the start of a brand new era of Brazilian mining.
Elsewhere, we ask what the Western world can, and maybe ought to, be doing to cut back its reliance on Chinese language uncommon earth mines, and examine a authorized declare in Mozambique that’s pitting a personal firm towards the nationwide authorities, with the world wanting on to see how the dispute is settled, and what this might imply for future mining lawsuits.
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Run-off within the rainforest: Brazilian mining sector eyes unsure future
The way forward for Brazil’s mining {industry} is hanging within the steadiness with a lot using on who wins Brazil’s carefully fought presidential election. Nnamdi Anyadike investigates.
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Opinion: the Western world should finish China’s stranglehold of uncommon earths
Jason Mitchell argues that the Ukraine disaster has proven why it’s completely important that the USA and the Western world develop their very own provide chain for uncommon earth parts.
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Quick charging: can Britain turn into a lithium chief in time?
JP Casey considers the work of British Lithium, because it appears to be like to determine a home supply of lithium, and an industry-scale refining facility.
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Doubled-edged: how the power transition may destroy African forests
Africa’s forests are in danger from the mining of crucial metals being carried out to assist the world with its ‘environmental’ power transition, writes Jason Mitchell.
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Take it again: inside Pathfinder and AAG’s declare towards Mozambique
Giles Crosse investigates the lack of a Pathfinder Minerals mining declare in Mozambique, and asks what the dispute may imply for the way forward for mining within the nation.
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Subsequent problem: local weather change
As is the case with many heavy industries, mining is a key contributor to the world’s struggling local weather. Optimising operations and offsetting emissions, nonetheless, can solely go thus far, and there’s a real concern that the world will, finally, have to decide on between mineral excavation and defending its setting within the long-term. What conclusion is most definitely for the world’s decision-makers?
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