Illegal sand mining in Brazil reaches US$5 billion annually
Illegal sand extraction in Brazil escalated to an estimated US$5 (RS$20) billion in 2021 due to increased demand from the civil construction sector. Researcher Luiz Fernando Ramadan, in a review of a 2015 survey, suggested that sand mining could be 60% illegal. Ramadan, a federal police officer, calculated this illegality by comparing it to annual […]