Minas Gerais, Bahia and Pará account for 39.7% of the country’s mining tenements.
Minas Gerais50,600
Bahia29,866
Pará23,574
Goiás16,242
São Paulo15,375
Mato Grosso12,884
Rio Grande do Sul12,484
Santa Catarina11,473
Paraná9,458
Ceará8,902
Mining tenements are not spread evenly. Minas Gerais alone has 50,600, or 19.3% of the total. Bahia, in second place, has 29,866.
Next come Pará (23,574), Goiás (16,242) and São Paulo (15,375). The top ten states hold 72.8% of all tenements.
Volume is not value: a state with many sand and clay applications can weigh less than another with a few iron or copper concessions. That is why the number of tenements is where the reading starts, not where it ends.
The tenements behind these numbers are on the map.
