This guy's definitely pro-mining.It won't change much for BBX in the short term but it'll certainly help getting the full mining permit approved. It could save us a year or more:
Bolsonaro's love affair with mining extends to Amazon
"Look, we've been waiting 30 years,'' said Elton Rohnelt, who founded a few mining companies during Brazil's military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985, and served with Bolsonaro as a lower-house lawmaker in the 1990s.
He has criticised the country's environmental agencies for blocking promising projects.
Canada's Belo Sun Mining intended to build Brazil's largest gold mine in the Amazon, but last year had its licence suspended when the government's Federal Indian Institute said the company hadn't completed necessary studies. A $US2 billion potash project, Potassio do Brasil, is nearly a decade old and has faced repeated delays, according to the company's president, Helio Diniz.
Bureaucracy plagues the mining sector nationally, not just in the Amazon, said Murilo Ferreira, the former chief executive officer of Vale