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Brazil may be responsible for 5% of global annual emissions if all legal mining sites remain active - study

Staff Writer | September 19, 2023 | 6:06 am Suppliers & Equipment Latin America Bauxite Gold Iron Ore Manganese 

If all of Brazil’s active legal mining sites continue to operate in the coming decades, emissions will total an estimated 2.55 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) due to loss of vegetation (0.87 Gt CO2eq) and soil (1.68 Gt CO2eq)....

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