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  • This, for the time being at least, is 'garimpeiro' country.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • This gave rise to illegal "garimpeiro" type mining, smuggling and environmental degradation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Others talked of garimpeiro encampments razed to the ground, of property smashed and of corpses left by the side of the river.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Alberto Mendes, a 23-year-old garimpeiro, said it was a dagerous job, partly because police and soldiers sometimes stole the freelancers 'stones.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The gravity tailings generated in the coming months, and those from previous garimpeiro workings, will then be directly treated in the CIL, as supplementary feed to run-of-mine (ROM) ore. "

    Resource Investor - Main Content Feed Press release 2010

  • The gravity tailings generated in the coming months, and those from previous garimpeiro workings, will then be directly treated in the CIL, as supplementary feed to run-of-mine (ROM) ore. "

    Resource Investor - Main Content Feed Press release 2010

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