José Carlos Castro, a small farmer and the president of the residents association of the village of Carvalhais, walks through the hole left by Mina do Beça, an old tin mine neighboring his village that stop activities in the 1960s, leaving huge environmental damage and little else. Now a planed new lithium mine plans to raze the entire mountain top that separate Carvalhais from neighboring Morgade, taking from him more than 60% of the pastures where his cattle grazes and destroying the spirngs that water the remaining fields
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