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operated the Gaia, Faria and
Gabirobas gold mines southwest of Honório Bicalho and the Bicalho mine at Honório Bicalho. The company bought the Fernan Paes estate to the west of Honorio Bicalho around 1863 and worked the Gaia and Gabirobas mines between 1867 and 1873, after which mining halted. The
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