Download or read book Transformations in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Work and Production Structures in the Tapajós Region of Brazil's Amazon written by CARLOS DE MATOS BANDEIRA JUNIOR and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, artisanal and small-scale gold mining, known in the Brazilian Amazon as “garimpagem”, generates direct income to approximately 35,000 gold miners in the Tapajós region. Around 2,000 gold extraction areas are located in this region, operating various technical and organizational structures which require distinct levels of capital and technological investments, constituting a complex commercial supply chain for services, inputs and equipment on a regional national and international scale based on the commercialization of gold, which, in most cases, is negotiated under informal and illegal conditions. The main objective of this ethnographic research is to analyze the predominant mining production model used in the region in consolidation with the use of backhoe loader technology in the production process and focusing on the relationships and working conditions of the miners. The findings of this research is to understand and describe how the productive structures which currently explore gold in the Tapajós region are organized and operated and under what conditions the gold miners extract ore from the Amazon soil.