At an age of development in the Anthropocene, where human beings began to have a greater influence on the Earth than natural systems and processes, drilling into the deepest depths of the soil and the extraction of natural resources make it clear that we live in the present day a true “mineral era”. The impacts on the environment and on the lives of humans and non-humans, the various forms of violence, even providing conditions for political instability in countries of exploitation, are greater than the expectation of improved living conditions that local communities have these explorations. This communication proposal aims to discuss the various forms of violence to which communities in the village of Namanhumbir, in the District of Montepuez, in Cabo Delgado, Northern Mozambique, have been subjected since a mega mining project was installed in the community with the aim of extracting huge deposits of rubies discovered in the region. Crossing a multiplicity of questions about the claim of autochthony among native groups who call others ‘vientes’ in reference to those who arrived in the community with large companies, this communication is the result of ethnographic extracts resulting from fieldwork carried out in the community of Namanhumbir since 2012.