Gongo Soco was a gold mine in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to the east of Belo Horizonte in the mid-19th century. It was worked by skilled miners...
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Cornish miners played a major role in gold mining in imperial Brazil. The Gongo Soco gold mine, operated by the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association of Cornwall...
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were forced to do the work, while the slave/mine owners prospered. The Gongo Soco gold mine, operated by the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association of Cornwall...
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a million African slaves were shipped to work in the gold mines. The Gongo Soco gold mine, operated by the Imperial Brazilian Mining Association of Cornwall...
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Horizonte and to the microregion of Itabira. The municipality contains the Gongo Soco mine, once a gold mine and later a large iron ore operation, which closed...
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slaves until they were emancipated in the late 19th century. After the Gongo Soco mine closed in 1856 some of the Cornish miners found work in Brazilian...
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multi-party deal. In May 2000, the company acquired Sociomex, owner of the Gongo Sôco Mine, with proven reserves of approximately 75 million tonnes. In May...
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elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1843 he went to take charge of the Gongo Soco mines in Brazil; afterwards he proceeded to India to report on certain...
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the country, such as the Brucutu mines in São Gonçalo do Rio Abaixo, Gongo Soco in Barão de Cocais and Água Limpa in Rio Piracicaba, and Vale's and Samarco's...
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