Minas Gerais in Brazil has been a major producer of aquamarine for the last two centuries, the Geological Institute of America reports. Other mining spots include Pakistan, Madagascar, Myanmar ...

Hurlbert/ NMNH, SI You start with the stone, aquamarine ... prospectors found the stone in a mine in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Originally three feet long and weighing nearly 100 ...

Brazil's federal police indicted 20 people Friday for rock salt mining in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio that destroyed five urban neighborhoods and forced tens of thousands of people to ...

The sinking of the Braskem SA mine in the Brazilian city of Maceio is accelerating dramatically and is on alert “as a collapse risk,” the city’s Civil Defense warned. The rock salt mine is ...

The Fundao tailings dam at an iron ore mine in the mountains of Minas Gerais state was managed by Samarco, co-owned by BHP and Brazilian miner Vale. "I will produce a judgment as soon as I can ...

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