RCA Advogados unit in Minaçu/GO

RCA Advogados opened its new office in Minaçu. RCA Minaçu will specialize in agribusiness law, with a specific focus on the north of the state of Goiás. Minaçu is a municipality in the north of the state of Goiás, Brazil. There is a large asbestos mine in the municipality. Minaçu is the seat of one of the world’s largest chrysotile asbestos mines. The Cana Brava mine, located on the left bank of the Tocantins River, occupies a total area of 45 kmª. Asbestos has made Minaçu one of the richest municipalities in the state of Goiás. The industrial zone has capacity to produce ten percent of all the chrysotile asbestos fiber sold in the world. It is the largest mine in Brazil and the third in the world, after mines in Russia and Canada. On the Seplan Index of Economic Development (2000) Minaçu ranked 13 out of 146 municipalities in the state