azards became common knowledge. But in the late seventeenth century another mining exploitation came to the fore, gold mining, which became very popular and is to this day one of the still-present mining trades in Brazil. Gold mining, although vastly down-sized during the 1800's when mining in general took a visibly evident nose-dive, still takes place in smaller rivers where the miner filters through the sediment on the river bed in search of gold deposits. During the fall in mining in Brazil and South American states they were forced to commit open trade from outside counties to build economies. This included the importing of non-ferous metals such as lead, copper, zinc and tin which began to cripple Brazil financially until the fortunate invention of steamships and railroads. During this time countries like Chile, Peru and Bolivia grew zones of industrialisation around which a whole series of support industries grew. This left Brazil behind and forced it to look elsewhere to aid the government financially.
             But before it began looking to other sources for income, the government thought it should try to fix the mining resources in the country. But by the turn of the twentieth century Brazils mining trade faced a very modern problem. The mines were largely owned by indigenous firms and to a lesser extent collaborations between South American companies and foreign investors. The Brazilian government had become intimidated by this along with the miners strike in the United States. In 1901 just as Theodore Roosevelt had come to power he faced the billionaire tyrants and firms like J. D. Rockefeller and James Morgan who owned all the trusts such as banks and rail in the states and frankly whetted their beaks in business with a large turnover. But Roosevelt much to the dismay of these tyrants nationalised explain most of their businesses and ended the miners strike by threatening military action on the people and companies that owned...