Giant mining company Vale backs off from mining in indigenous lands

The mining company Vale has backed off from requesting permits to mine in indigenous territories in Brazil, recognizing, in a note, that the exploration could only happen “through the CLPI (Free, Prior and Informed Consent) of the indigenous people themselves and a legislation that allows and adequately regulates the activity,” reported Forbes magazine

Between 2020 and 2021, the company had already given up on 89 suits that overlap with Indigenous Lands. According to the report, the company’s next step will be to file withdrawals and waivers for the group of 15 remaining processes, in the next 15 days, interfering in the Xikin do Cateté Indigenous Land, in Pará state.

The newspaper Folha de S. Paulo indicated that the withdrawal of the mining processes “in defense of human rights”, as the note says, is part of the company’s environmental, sustainability and governance strategy, which gained more relevance with the charge of investors after the Brumadinho environmental disaster.