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Bravo Mining Welcomes Presidential Decree Creating the Barcarena Export Processing Zone (ZPE)
Bravo Mining Welcomes Presidential Decree Creating the Barcarena Export Processing Zone (ZPE) ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\nBravo Mining Welcomes Presidential Decree Creating the Barcarena Export Processing Zone (ZPE)\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\n\n\nTORONTO, Jan. 26, 2026 /CNW/ - Bravo Mining Corp. (TSXV: BRVO) (OTCQX: BRVMF) (\"Bravo\" or the \"Company\") welcomes the publication of Presidential Decree No. 12,823, signed on January 22, 2026, by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which formally creates the Export Processing Zone of Barcarena (ZPE Barcarena) in the Municipality of Barcarena, State of Pará. The Decree was published on January 23, 2026 in the Diário Oficial da União, Brazil's Federal Gazette. Link here: DECRETO Nº 12.823\nThe decree represents the final federal act establishing the ZPE, following its prior approval by Brazil's National Council of Export Processing Zones (CZPE). As previously announced on November 5, 2025, Bravo has been selected to anchor the ZPE Barcarena, becoming the first mineral project ever designated as an anchor tenant of a Brazilian ZPE.\nIn this context, the publication of the Presidential Decree strengthens Bravo's Alternate Case development scenario as such detailed in our Preliminary Economic Assessment (\"PEA\", see press release dated on July 7, 2025), which contemplates the use of the ZPE Barcarena fiscal framework to enable local processing and vertical integration of metals potentially produced from the Luanga palladium + platinum + rhodium + gold + nickel project (\"Luanga Project\" or \"Luanga PGM+Au+Ni Project\").\nThe formal creation of the ZPE enhances regulatory certainty around this complementary pathway and reinforces the strategic alignment of the Company's potential development plans with Brazil's national industrial policy and Pará's economic development agenda.\nThe initiative was led by the Government of the State of Pará, through the Secretariat of Economic Development, Mining and Energy (SEDEME) and the Economic Development Company of Pará (CODEC), in partnership with Bravo, and in coordination with the Brazi...