Mineração, uma história de exploração e poluição: uma análise dos impactos socioambientais da Votorantim Cimentos em Itaú de Minas (1939-2018)

Abstract

This monograph aims to analyze some forms of socioenvironmental impacts that a cement plant provides to the region where it is installed. The impacts of Votorantim Cimentos in Itaú de Minas-MG are perceived in the water, soil and air. Although these forms of impacts have been analyzed through documents of more recent temporalities, limestone deposits have been extracted in the region since 1939, it has been devastated by this large modern enterprise for many decades. In this way, this work historicizes the mining company's activity throughout this historical period, dialoguing with the local political role, of civil society and the city hall, and of the State. The main sources of this work are the criminal cases of the 21st century in which Votorantim is a defendant, and the Preliminary Report of Integrated Development of the municipality from the year 1970, but the Mining Codes and other local sources are also analyzed. With this work, we seek to expand the research on the region of Itaú de Minas and contribute to the documentary and bibliographic research on mining in Brazil.