19.10.2026, Brazil’s critical, strategic minerals sector employs 129,000 people.
This represents 57% of the 226,634 jobs in mineral extraction. In Brazil, activities related to critical and strategic minerals accounted for 129,423 jobs in 2025, equivalent to 57 percent of the 226,634 positions in the country’s mineral extraction industry. Compared with 2023, the number of jobs increased by 8.6 percent. The data are available on…