{"id":19144,"date":"2025-09-16T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19144\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:17:08","slug":"global-race-for-critical-minerals-could-speed-up-brazils-regulation-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19144\/","title":{"rendered":"Global race for critical minerals could speed up Brazil\u2019s regulation | Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The global geopolitical race to secure access to critical minerals<\/a> is creating momentum for Brazil to modernize its legal framework for resource exploration. The country has been undergoing regulatory changes since the 2019 collapse of Vale\u2019s C\u00f3rrego do Feij\u00e3o tailings dam in Brumadinho<\/a>, a period that saw measures such as increased fines imposed by the National Mining Agency (ANM). Still, Brazil lags in updating rules in areas such as penalties for companies that fail to develop exploration concessions within established deadlines. <\/p>\n

Marcio Pereira, a partner at BMA Advogados, noted that Brazil has historically been more \u201creactive\u201d in its regulatory approach but said he has \u201cnever seen\u201d the sector so mobilized to push for improvements in the legal framework needed to advance mining in the country. <\/p>\n

He emphasized that global dynamics\u2014including pressure initially driven by the United States to secure strategic mineral supplies\u2014have reinforced the industry\u2019s perception that Brazil must modernize its regulations to take advantage of rising demand for critical minerals such as rare earths, nickel, niobium, and copper. <\/p>\n

Since the pandemic, Brazil has enacted Law 14066\/20 and decrees 10965\/22 and 11197\/22, which set out sanctions and procedures for mineral exploration. ANM is responsible for implementing the fines. According to Mr. Pereira, the expectation is that the agency will finalize the rules this month, a step that could help unlock investment and speed up development. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow [after regulation] there will be meaningful fines for those who \u2018sit\u2019 on concessions,\u201d Mr. Pereira said. <\/p>\n

Jo\u00e3o Raso, a BMA lawyer specializing in mining, pointed out that several factors currently hinder the development of Brazil\u2019s mineral reserves. Data from the Brazilian Mining Institute (IBRAM) show that, among critical minerals, Brazil holds the world\u2019s third-largest nickel reserves but ranks only eighth in production; the second-largest graphite reserves but is fourth in output; the fourth-largest titanium reserves but only 16th in production; and the second-largest rare earth reserves but 11th in output. <\/p>\n

\u201cHaving all this internal and external pressure saying we need to move [on critical minerals] is what will trigger change,\u201d Mr. Raso said, citing demand from companies and countries for inputs vital to industries such as electrification, technology, and defense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The global geopolitical race to secure access to critical minerals is creating momentum for Brazil to modernize its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}