Brazil Iron: UK court case launched over mining project in Bahia - BBC News

Brazil Iron calls itself a sustainable mining company. Local residents call its project a disaster.

9 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, BBC/Paulo KobaImage caption, Catarina Oliveira de Silva accuses UK-based mining company Brazil Iron of burying a lake in her communityBy Ione WellsSouth America Correspondent, BahiaIn a small community deep in the remote, lush mountains of Bahia, Brazil, Catarina Oliveira de Silva points down at what used to be a lake.

"After the mine started extracting there, waste came down. It fell into the spring. It buried this entire lake. Three metres of silt and ore sludge."

Catarina says dust from this mine covered crops she owned, including coffee bushes and banana trees, until she could not produce them anymore.

She and her husband had also taken out a loan in 2015 for a business where people could pay to go angling in the lake.

"Our project went down the drain," she says.

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