Pará Mining Royalty Collections (Brazil CFEM, Monthly)

## What this measures

The CFEM mining royalty paid on mining in the state of Pará each month, from ANM's payment records. Values are in millions of Brazilian reais, nominal, by the month the royalty was paid, from June 2003.

## Why it matters

Pará, in the Amazon, is home to the Carajás iron ore province and large copper, nickel, bauxite and gold operations. Its royalty is a direct read of how mining revenue in the region is flowing to local governments.

## How to read it

Higher means more royalty paid. CFEM is a percentage of mining revenue (3.5% for iron ore, 2% for copper, 1.5% for gold, for example), so it moves with prices, the exchange rate and output together. Compare with the same month a year earlier; values are not adjusted for inflation. Pará paid about R$3.1 billion in 2024, close to Minas Gerais.

## What it does not say

It is royalty paid, not production. Late payments, settlements and enforcement land in the month they are paid. The latest months keep filling in for several weeks, so Palanor keeps only months that look complete (at least half the median of the twelve before). In 2026 ANM's file stopped filling after early July, so June 2026 is the newest month as of mid-October 2026.

## Source

Agência Nacional de Mineração (ANM), Brazil, open data on CFEM collections (CFEM_Arrecadacao CSV files at dadosabertos.anm.gov.br/CFEM/), listed on dados.gov.br as "Compensação Financeira pela Exploração de Recursos Minerais (CFEM)" under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Attribution: Fonte: ANM, dados abertos da CFEM. Changes made by Palanor: payments summed by month and state, exact duplicate rows dropped (they are not in ANM's published totals), values converted to R$ millions. Annual totals match ANM's published figures within 0.15% (2023 R$6,857.6M, 2024 R$7,447.3M, 2025 R$7,909.9M). Refreshed weekly by /api/cron/brazil-cfem-sync.