O colapso da concentração de empreendimentos de produção do ferro gusa em Marabá: discussão sobre o papel da crise mundial de 2008

Abstract

The present work deals with the (uns) successful trajectory of the pig iron projects installed in the Industrial District of Marabá city in the state of Pará considering the context of the Grande Carajás Project from the 2000s. This paper has chosen to discuss the factors mentioned in the most common public versions of the Marabá pig iron pole debacle, more precisely the ―world economic crisis of 2008‖. The main objective of this work was to demonstrate that the indications on the functioning of the global pig iron market point to the price of this product as the most important factor for closing the doors of 10 of the 11 companies of the concentration of pig iron production in Marabá. They need other, deeper and more complex explanations, especially for the socioeconomic context of mining in the eastern Amazon. The option was to make a historical analysis of facts and statistical data on the behavior of the world pig iron market in the period 2008 to 2014 and the production of pig iron in Marabá, comparing the data behavior and world market movements in order to to raise the debate on mineral enterprises and point out the real factors responsible for this disaster so detrimental to the development of the south and southeast of Pará.