This research aims to analyze the integration of Small-Scale Mining into an active and
sustainable system of exploration of mineral resources for Territorial Planning, especially the
political and socio-environmental dynamics in the Metropolitan Region of Belém. The
direction of the research was based on the method qualitative, exploring concepts and
pointing out the complex reality of the object of study, and the quantitative method based on
the collection of data structured in graphs and maps, which contributed to presenting
considerations about the current scenario of appropriation of urban territory, resources and of
their forms of spatial materialization. The secondary data, collected for the research regarding
mineral substances (sand, clay, crushed stone and gravel), comes from the National Mining
Agency and dates back to the last 20 years (2002 to 2022). The research developed a
theoretical framework on Territorial Planning on a sustainable basis for Small-Scale Mining
activities on the international, national, regional and Belém Metropolitan Region scales, also
taking as a reference the National Plan of Mineral Aggregates for Construction Civil and
intervention action by public authorities. Territorial Planning and sustainable planning are
considered important tools in the productive activities of Small-Scale Mining and in public
authorities' management plans for urban space, considering that they must involve, among
their actions, a technical process that seeks to create conditions to meet to the objectives of
development that considers social and environmental functions and guarantees well-being for
society, and the urgency of a metropolitan master plan that develops in a sustainable and
integrated manner between the activities of Small-Scale Mining and the areas impacted. As a
result, it was observed that there is no political planning directed towards mineral activity,
only towards the transport network and basic sanitation, as well as, there is no integrated
urban planning between Small Scale Mining activities and the urban expansion of
Metropolitan Region of Belém. The situational diagnosis carried out by this research presents
a cartographic production, which culminated in an important analysis of the mineral sector,
spatializing the areas of mineral exploration, the main substances explored, the location and
quantity of production and the number of companies at state and regional scales.
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