TERRA DA OPALA

The municipality of Pedro II - PI is the world's second exporter of opal gem, activity, however, unhealthy for more than three hundred local miners bamburristas. These, in addition to not get the substantial part of economic and symbolic bonus of trade of opal, they are suffering, for the last six decades, a historical process of social invisibility. The article, makes use of the method of analysis of discourse to examine the catalog of opal jewelry edited in 2007 by supporters of the Local Production System of Opal, showing that the reproduction of that invisibility is endorsed by those who should help fight it.