Morro Velho [SEP] product
over 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) deep underground. Although Morro Velho's main production is gold, silver, arsenic, and other minerals are also extracted at the mining complex.
Despite closing of the Minha Velha and Engenho D'Água mines in 2003 and 2004, gold production has increased over the past three years, with 240,000 ounces (6,800 kilograms) of gold produced in 2004 at an average recovered ore grade of 0.222 ounces per ton (7.62 grams per metric ton). Cash costs of production totalled $133
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Soon after this the Brazilian authorities freed the slaves under pressure from local abolitionists.
The case was one of the early events leading to full abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888.
Mines.
Mines Morro Velho.
The Morro Velho mine is in a low valley near Nova Lima, about from Belo Horizonte.
The company invested significant amounts into improving infrastructure, and quickly increased production.
The first dividends were paid in 1842.
The company encouraged British miners to come