Brazil Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of a new, large lithium project comprised of four mineral rights with an aggregate of 17,207 acres. This project is located in a new lithium frontier in Brazil, outside of Minas Gerais. Brazil Minerals is unaware of any other company with a simultaneous presence in both of these two hard-rock lithium zones, northern Minas Gerais and the one announced here. Areli [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced that last week it added an important new project to its portfolio: mineral rights for rare earths totaling 19,389 acres in the northeastern part of Brazil. Rare earths comprise 17 elements and are essential for defense and high technology applications, including permanent magnet motors for EV. Areli Nogueira, Vice President of Mineral Exploration of the Company, stated, "Brazil Minerals now [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced that yesterday the Brazilian mining department granted two additional exploration permits for its lithium project in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The size of Brazil Minerals' lithium project has now doubled from 2019 and stands at 28,316 acres today. The Company's areas are primarily located in and around Araçuaí and Virgem da Lapa, a well-known lithium district. Brazil Minerals is [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced that it has received exploration permits for two additional mineral claims that now are part of its lithium project in the northeast part of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The Company is focused on hard-rock lithium from high grade spodumene pegmatites. As previously reported, Brazil Minerals has now direct ownership of projects in a triad of strategic minerals - lithium, titanium, and [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received the exploration permit for its new titanium project in the western part of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Titanium is a highly strategic mineral and the area where this asset is located has shown potential for a large deposit. Areli Nogueira, geological engineer of the project, stated, "Brazil Minerals has been able to obtain the title to a [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has advanced its Iron Project with receipt of an independent technical report on the opportunity prepared by an independent geological consulting firm. This firm's team spent several days in the project area, and collected multiple samples. The report estimates that the Project area contains 7.4 million tons of iron for a deposit spanning up to a depth of 45 meters [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received initial positive results from certain preliminary, but key, dry magnetic separation tests performed by an independent laboratory with respect to iron samples from a project which the Company has a signed six-month option to acquire . If further studies confirm a specific cost-effective pathway to concentrate iron based on dry magnetic separation, and if all [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced today that its diamond recovery operations have been producing gem-quality stones and that the larger specimens will be cut and polished by professional cutters. The attached photograph taken last week shows recent examples of production. Diamond production runs have come from excavated areas located at the edge of the licensed perimeter for mining and closest to the local waterway. For [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced today that the first run of the production of diamonds from its current mining site was better than expected. Diamondiferous gravel was extracted, transported, and processed through a nearby first-stage recovery plant. The resulting high-probability partially-processed ore was then further separated by granulometric characteristics into “small”, “medium”, and [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced today that its main site alluvial diamond and gold mining operation has started recovery of raw diamonds and fine gold. The concentrations obtained in processing of diamondiferous and auriferous gravel at the nearby recovery plant are increasing as sequentially lower levels of such alluvial material are reached. Attached to this release is a recent photograph of the main excavation site. All [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced today that its alluvial diamond and gold mining operation continues to progress very well and as planned. This active project is in the Jequitinhonha River Valley in a district known for retrieval of diamonds and gold for over two centuries. Brazil Minerals, through subsidiaries, has title to over 27,000 acres of mineral rights for diamonds and gold in this region. Attached to this release [...]
Brazil Minerals Inc. announced today that its alluvial diamond and gold project mining operations are progressing well and within its plans for production in the third quarter of 2019. This project is in the Jequitinhonha River Valley of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and in a district known for retrieval of diamonds and gold for over two centuries. Brazil Minerals, through subsidiaries, has title to over 27,000 acres [...]