He added that aboriginals represent 9% of Rio Tinto's 25,000-strong workforce in Australia, where it is the largest employer of indigenous people.
Lopes's bill is a revamped version of a proposal presented to Brazil’s Congress in 1996, which despite being approved by the senate but never passed the lower house.
Last month, the State Council on the Environment passed another controversy-charged ruling on gold mining in the Amazonas State. The decree, which limits but doesn’t outlaw the use of mercury, have had scientists and activists up in arms since then.
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