Exposibram 2025: Critical Minerals Highlighted With Focus on Global Energy Transition With Sustainability, Technological Innovation, Green Jobs, and Brazilian Public Policies

Written by Rodrigo Souza

Published on 30/10/2025 at 08:46

O Ministério de Minas e Energia (MME), durante a Exposibram 2025, ressaltou a importância dos minerais críticos, como níquel, grafite, cobre e terras raras, fundamentais para tecnologias limpas e o desenvolvimento sustentável. (Foto: MME)

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During Exposibram 2025, Government and Experts Highlight How Brazilian Mining Strengthens Energy Transition, Promotes Sustainable Innovation, and Generates Opportunities Across the National Mineral Sector

The Exposibram 2025 is consolidating itself as the main event of brazilian mining by highlighting the country’s role in the global energy transition, according to a report published.

Held in Salvador (BA) on October 29, the fair brought together authorities, companies, and researchers to discuss the future of the mineral industry and its contribution to a low-carbon economy.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) highlighted the importance of critical minerals such as nickel, graphite, copper, and rare earth elements, which are essential for clean technologies and sustainable development.

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Sustainability and Technological Innovation as Drivers of the Mining of the Future

The national secretary of Geology, Mining, and Mineral Transformation, Ana Paula Bittencourt, emphasized during the Exposibram 2025 that sustainable mining is one of the pillars of the energy transition.

The event, promoted by the Brazilian Institute of Mining (IBRAM), presented solutions that combine environmental efficiency and technological innovation, focusing on reducing impacts and increasing the use of clean energy in operations.

According to the MME, 18 ministries contributed to the construction of the new Brazilian Mineral Policy, which is part of the National Mining Plan and prioritizes governance, productive diversification, and process modernization.

Exposibram 2025: Green Jobs and Diversity Strengthen the Mineral Industry

Another highlight of the Exposibram 2025 was the recognition of initiatives aimed at inclusion and professional development.

The secretary participated in the awarding of the MINA Prize, organized by Women in Mining (WIM Brazil), which honors women with significant contributions to mining.

The initiative reinforces the sector’s commitment to gender equity and the expansion of green jobs, occupations that reconcile economic development and environmental preservation.

According to the MME, the new mineral policy is also expected to boost income generation and infrastructure, especially in strategic producing regions.

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Public Policies and Strategic Minerals at the Center of the Energy Transition

During the Exposibram 2025, the government reinforced that the National Council of Mineral Policy plays an essential role in formulating guidelines that ensure security for production chains and enhance Brazil’s competitiveness in the global market.

National mining positions itself as a driver of technological growth and environmentally responsible, capable of providing essential inputs for batteries, turbines, and solar panels.

With the appreciation of strategic minerals, the country advances in the integration of clean energy, innovation, and sustainability, becoming a world reference in responsible development.

The Exposibram 2025 reaffirms, thus, the strength of Brazilian mining as an essential partner for advancing a greener, safer, and more technological economy.

Exposibram 2025: Critical Minerals Highlighted With Focus on Global Energy Transition With Sustainability, Technological Innovation, Green Jobs, and Brazilian Public Policies

During Exposibram 2025, Government and Experts Highlight How Brazilian Mining Strengthens Energy Transition, Promotes Sustainable Innovation, and Generates Opportunities Across the National Mineral Sector

Sustainability and Technological Innovation as Drivers of the Mining of the Future

Exposibram 2025: Green Jobs and Diversity Strengthen the Mineral Industry

Public Policies and Strategic Minerals at the Center of the Energy Transition

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The Panama Canal stores water in Gatún and Alhajuela lakes to maintain 38 daily crossings and prevent a drought linked to El Niño from once again stalling ships, raising freight rates, and putting pressure on global supply chains as occurred in 2023 and 2024.

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Exposibram 2025: Critical Minerals Highlighted With Focus on Global Energy Transition With Sustainability, Technological Innovation, Green Jobs, and Brazilian Public Policies

During Exposibram 2025, Government and Experts Highlight How Brazilian Mining Strengthens Energy Transition, Promotes Sustainable Innovation, and Generates Opportunities Across the National Mineral Sector

Sustainability and Technological Innovation as Drivers of the Mining of the Future

Exposibram 2025: Green Jobs and Diversity Strengthen the Mineral Industry

Public Policies and Strategic Minerals at the Center of the Energy Transition

Forget petroleum-based asphalt: a Scottish company transforms 684,000 plastic bottles into one kilometer of road that is 60% more resistant and up to 10 times more durable, and the technology has already started replacing traditional asphalt in more than 30 countries.

With billions in loans, China is rebuilding Nigeria’s railway network from scratch, abandoning the British colonial tracks that have turned to scrap and creating a corridor of over 1,300 km to take the load off the roads of Africa’s largest economy.

Austrian engineers have developed an inflatable concrete technology that transforms flat slabs into domes using only air pressure, eliminating scaffolding and temporary forms, and potentially changing the way bridges, tunnels, and curved roofs are constructed worldwide.

Australia prepares to dredge 96.5 million m³ in Moreton Bay to deepen, widen, and realign channels of the Port of Brisbane, in a project of up to 25 years designed to accommodate larger ships and enhance maritime safety and regional port efficiency.

Study solves great ancient mystery: remains of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, are identified in Vergina and resolves the enigma of the Macedonian royal tombs that had lasted half a century.

Portugal installs two giant underwater sockets to draw water from the Atlantic and create a €107.9 million desalination plant in the Algarve capable of producing 43.2 million liters of potable water per day with ocean intake 2 km from the coast.

Without producing a single ton of copper today, Argentina wants to become one of the ten largest producers of the metal in the world by 2035, betting on the Andes deposits and billion-dollar incentives from the Milei government to unlock projects that have been stalled for decades.

Brazil seeks to transform natural resources, energy, mining, oil, and gas into sustainable wealth with strong engineering, competitive industry, technology, productivity, and long-term planning.

Gold, silver, and copper appear near the surface at Filo Sur, making mining companies look at San Juan as a new treasure map in the Andes.

Geological Service of Brazil finds high concentrations of rare earth elements in a strip that stretches from São Paulo to Santa Catarina, including cities like Joinville and Garuva. Samples recorded more than 8,000 parts per million, a level considered significant for this type of occurrence.

BNDES targets R$ 50 billion in credit and investment for critical minerals and is already analyzing 56 projects that could open a new front of operations at the bank.

Disposable masks that would end up in the trash can become road base in Australia, where RMIT researchers mixed shredded PPE with recycled construction debris to create a material capable of using millions of units per kilometer of pavement.

The Panama Canal stores water in Gatún and Alhajuela lakes to maintain 38 daily crossings and prevent a drought linked to El Niño from once again stalling ships, raising freight rates, and putting pressure on global supply chains as occurred in 2023 and 2024.

A giant crater discovered in the interior of Piauí revealed, after decades of studies, a rare meteorite impact that transformed the region and impressed scientists worldwide.

Forget conventional asphalt: The Netherlands is already testing roads with lignin capable of replacing half of the fossil bitumen, reducing CO₂ emissions by 30%, and transforming a paper industry waste into a plant-based binder for more sustainable and resilient pavements.

A material four times lighter than steel and twice as strong has just arrived at construction sites and may permanently retire the traditional rebar, with its structures lasting more than a century without needing a single maintenance.