Craters of Greed: Environmental Disaster in Vazante

By J Carlos de Assis

An environmental disaster of gigantic proportions is being carried in in the municipality of Vazante, northwest Minas Gerais, Brazil, under the complacent view of public officials and environmental control bodies. It pertains to a subterrenean zinc mining operation, by the Votorantim Group, now a part of Nexa Resources, headquartered in Luxembourg, who drained an immense underground aquifer, pumping millions of litres of water continuously to the surface. Due to it being a karst landscape, hundreds of dolines (abruptly forming craters) appear in farms and close to an urban area, at extreme risk to animal and human life. The underground mining operation is also responsible for the pollution of rivers, the drying of water sources, cisterns and lakes, the death of cattle herds, and the risk of cave collapse. This book is the true and accurate account of the disaster, calling to attention of society and authorities to the need of addressing this awful state of affairs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FB9GDJYF
• ISBN13: 9798285487968
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"