Mining-Technology.com
A Brazilian federal court has revoked Canadian miner Belo Sun Mining’s preliminary licence for the Volta Grande project in the Para state of Amazon, saying it failed to assess the impact of mining on local indigenous communities.
The $750m Volta Grande or Big Ben project located on the Xingu River in Amazon was planned to be an open pit operation.
With an estimated capacity to produce more than 300,000oz of gold a year during its ten-year lifetime, the Volta Grande project would have become the country’s largest gold mine.