Mineração no Norte de Minas: Gerais e Geraizeiros ameaçados em função do Projeto Vale do Rio Pardo na microrregião de Grão Mogol - MG

Abstract

Beginning of this century Brazilian mineral extraction industry has been undergoing a process of consolidation, driven by a neoextrativista government economic policy cradled by the big demand for such raw materials on the world market. In the process the great capital of the mineral sector has sniffed other areas with potential for exploration and expansion of the sector. In this sense, the looks of the mineral capital turn to large deposits of iron ore in the existing North Mine, known since the 1970s, placing the region as a new mineral frontier. In 2011 large multinational announced investments in the billions for the exploration of iron in the North Mines. In this way the South American Metals - SAM - developed for microregion of Grain Mogol the Vale do Rio Pardo Project, a mega project of open pit mining with a mine with an estimated useful life of 25 years, with an extraction of 25,000 .000 tons of iron ore per year. However, much of the area intended for the installation of this venture is the territory of traditional communities geraizeiras Lamarão and San Francisco. From this bias, this study sheds light on the contradictions of the context of the expansion of mining to the north of Minas Gerais, from the perspective that despite the economic growth produced by mining, this activity is desestruturadora traditional forms of social organization existing in the regions target of mining capital. Thus, interested me in this process understand geraizeira cosmography in two communities in question, in order to apprehend those who are affected by the Project Vale do Rio Pardo, and the consequences of this in the local way of life. If last geraizeiras these communities have suffered from a cycle of dispossession of their territory being trapped by the expansion of monoculture eucalyptus, at the present time the advance of mining to this region offers an imminent risk of experiencing a time of despatialization.