Belo Sun faces new Brazilian lawsuit seeking Indigenous consultation on Volta Grande project

• A new Civil Public Action in Brazil targets Belo Sun’s Volta Grande Gold Project, seeking to add the Mebêngôkre-Xikrin people to the licensing process.
• The Federal Public Defender’s Office seeks to suspend project licenses until free, prior, informed consultation is completed under ILO Convention 169.
• The filing also seeks interim court-supervised expert evidence on the project’s tailings dam.
• Claim requests collective moral damages of at least BRL 1 million from each defendant, for the benefit of the Indigenous community.
• Belo Sun plans to seek dismissal, citing a substantially identical prior case under lis pendens.

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