Exhibit 10.6 

Free English Translation

The EXPORTER, qualified below, issues this Bank Credit Note ("Note"), which shall be governed by the conditions set forth in the preamble and in the clauses below.

CONSIDERING THAT

A)       The EXPORTER shall enter into future Export Contracts (as defined below) with the Importers, commercial counterparties approved by the BANK, whereby the EXPORTER has agreed to export or supply to the Importers and the Importers have agreed import products and/or services from the EXPORTER;

B)       The EXPORTER wishes to obtain an advance from the BANK of the amounts to be paid by the IMPORTERS to the EXPORTER under the Export Contracts in consideration for the export of the products or provision of the services which are the subject of the Export Contracts, in accordance with the characteristics described in the preamble and in the other provisions of this Note ("Export Advance Receipt");

C)       For its activities, the BANK raises funds under conditions of term and remuneration different from those owed by the EXPORTER in this Note and, as a way of enabling the EXPORTER to contract the Loan under the conditions of this Note, the BANK contracts derivative operations with the purpose of protecting itself against market variations (hedge), incurring costs and expenses arising from these operations, as mentioned in the definition of "Replacement Costs", which are the responsibility of and fully borne by the EXPORTER;

D)       The BANK has agreed to make the advance requested by the EXPORTER, which shall be disbursed in one installment, in the Total Amount of the Advance Export Receipt described in Item V of the Preamble, and subject to the conditions established in this Note;

E)       The Anticipated Export Receipt will be formalized through the issuance of this Note on this date, pursuant to Law 10.931 of August 2, 2004, as amended, which together with the guarantee instruments specified in Item VI of the Preamble ("Guarantees") and any other documents related to this Anticipated Export Receipt constitute the "Credit Documents";

a)       Conclusion, formalization, constitution and delivery to the BANK or to the LOCAL AGENT of the original copy of this Credit Note, and of the other Credit Documents duly signed by all the Parties and evidencing the registrations with the competent notaries, as applicable, in content and form satisfactory to the BANK;

b)       Delivery to the BANK or to the LOCAL AGENT of a copy of the Registration of the Financial Operation - ROF - necessary for the realization of this Anticipated Export Receipt with the Central Bank of Brazil ("BACEN") for operations with a settlement term of more than 360 (three hundred and sixty) days and of any documents (i) required by the applicable rules and regulations and/or by any governmental authorities or third parties for the formalization and/or maintenance of the Anticipated Export Receipt, of this Note and/or of the Credit Documents; and/or (ii) that the BANK, at its sole discretion, deems necessary for the purpose described in Item (i);

c)       Non-occurrence of any Early Maturity Event or any event or series of related or unrelated events from which an Early Maturity Event would reasonably be expected, at the BANK's sole discretion;

d)       Non-occurrence of any event which may result, at the BANK's sole discretion, in a material adverse effect on (i) the assets, business, operating activities, financial situation, liabilities, liabilities and/or capitalization of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS, and/or any third party guarantors, as the case may be; (ii) the ability of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors to comply with any of their respective obligations under this Note and/or any of the Credit Documents;

e)       The absence of any preliminary or permanent injunction, or other order, decree or opinion issued by any governmental authority imposing any restriction or limitation on the ability of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors to comply with the obligations assumed in this Note and/or in the Credit Documents;

f)       The non-occurrence of any material change or event which may result, at the BANK's sole discretion, in a material change in (i) any financial, monetary, social, political and/or economic conditions in Brazil or in the international scenario; (ii) the exchange conversion rate or control applicable to the Real and the United States dollar; and/or (iii) laws, rules, regulations or any other conditions of any nature whatsoever which affect or may affect credit concessions of the same nature as the Anticipated Export Receipt represented by this Note; and

g)       Maintenance of the veracity and correctness of the declarations and guarantees provided by the EXPORTER, GUARANTORS and any third party guarantors in this Note and in the other Credit Documents, as the case may be, at all times, from the execution of this Note to the Disbursement Date;

h)       Proof of the issue of a Standby Letter of Credit ("SBLC") in favor of the BANK, guaranteeing the EXPORTER's pecuniary obligations arising from this Note, in a form, terms and conditions acceptable to the BANK, issued by the LOCAL AGENT or by another first-rate financial institution, subject to the provisions of Clause 11.3 if the SBLC is issued by the LOCAL AGENT.

(I)       "SOFR" (Secured Overnight Financing Rate), the interest rate published daily and valid for the previous day (D-1), to be informed by the BANK to the CLIENT, based on overnight transactions and calculated on the basis of the simple or compound convention, in one of the methodologies described in Item 5.2.1. below and calculated according to the calculation period indicated in Item V of the Preamble. The administrator of this index is the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and it is published daily at 8 a.m. New York time on the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK website (newyorkfed.org).

(II)       "TERM SOFR" means the interest rate set forth in Item V of the Preamble, referred to as CME Term SOFR administered by CME Group Benchmark Administration Ltd. (or a successor administrator of such rate), published at 6:00 a.m. New York time on the business day following the business day during which futures data sampling occurs and made available on the CME's website (www.cmegroup.com) or on another website indicated by CME Benchmark Administration Ltd.

(III)       "EURIBOR" means the daily interest rate to be informed by the BANK to the CLIENT, calculated on the basis of the rate practiced by the Brussels interbank market for offers of euros for terms corresponding to the interest period of the loan granted under this Note, at or around 11:00 a.m. (Brussels time), two (2) business days before the start of the respective interest period;

(IV)       "EURO LIBOR" means the daily interest rate to be informed by the BANK to the CLIENT, calculated on the basis of the London interbank offered rate for euros for terms corresponding to the interest period of the loan granted under this Note, at or around 11:00 a.m. (London time), two (2) business days before the start of the respective interest period;

(V)       LIBOR IN YENES" means the daily interest rate to be informed by the BANK to the CLIENT, calculated on the basis of the London interbank offered rate for Japanese yen for terms corresponding to the interest period of the loan granted under this Note, at or around 11:00 a.m. (London time), two (2) business days before the start of the respective interest period.

a)       If the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors breach or fail to comply, in whole or in part, with any clause or condition of this Note and/or any of the Credit Documents, as applicable, if not remedied within 1 (one) business day for pecuniary obligations and 5 (five) business days for non-pecuniary obligations;

b)       If the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS, any third-party guarantors and/or any companies under common control, controlling or controlled by the EXPORTER and/or GUARANTORS and/or by any third party guarantors, including abroad, default on their obligations and/or fail to settle, on the respective due date, debts for which they are responsible arising from other contracts, loans and/or discounts entered into with the BANK itself and/or any companies, directly or indirectly, related, affiliated, controlling or controlled by the BANK, including abroad, and/or if the termination of the respective documents occurs, due to the fault of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS, any third party guarantors and/or any companies directly under common control, controlling or controlled by the EXPORTER and/or GUARANTORS and/or by any third party guarantors, including abroad, unless such non-compliance is remedied within a period of up to five (5) calendar days;

c)       If the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS, any third party guarantors and/or any companies under common control, controlling or controlled by the under common control, controlling or controlled by the EXPORTER, by the GUARANTORS and/or by any third party guarantors, including abroad, default on their obligations and/or fail to settle, on the respective due date, debts for which they are responsible arising from other contracts, loans or discounts entered into with third parties, including abroad, and/or if the respective documents are rescinded, which, at the BANK's discretion, directly affect the ability of the EXPORTER or the third party guarantors to honor the pecuniary obligations assumed in this Note, due to the fault of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS, any third party guarantors and/or any companies under common control, controlling or controlled by the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors, including abroad;

d)       If the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors have protested securities of their responsibility or co-obligation, the sum of which totals an individual or combined value, equal to or greater than the value indicated in Item VII of the Preamble, except for protests of securities involving the Santander Group, or suffer execution or seizure of assets that, at the BANK's discretion, may jeopardize its ability to pay its obligations unless it has been proven to the BANK that the protest has been cancelled, or suspended, or has been proven to have been made by error or bad faith of third parties, by obtaining the appropriate provisional measure suspending its effects, within 15 (fifteen) days;

e)       If the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors suffer any judicial or extrajudicial measure which, at the BANK's discretion, may affect their ability to honor the obligations assumed in this Note or in the guarantee instruments, if any;

f)       If the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors and/or any companies under common control or controlled by the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors, including abroad, with the exception of the MSP-FIP, become insolvent, have their bankruptcy filed, accept the Special Temporary Administration Regime (RAET), propose an out-of-court reorganization plan to any of their creditors or file for judicial reorganization, regardless of whether it has been granted or approved, or in any other processes or procedures of a similar nature;

g)       If the rights and obligations of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors provided for in this Note and in the other documents arising from it are transferred to third parties without the written agreement of the BANK;

h)       If the EXPORTER or GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors, with the exception of the Guarantor Aura INC, if they continue to be incorporated through publicly traded capital, have their direct or indirect corporate control transferred to a third party, corporate restructuring(s) within the Aura Minerals Group being permitted. For the purposes of this and the other clauses of this Note, the Aura Minerals Group is understood to be the companies that make up the corporate structure of Aura Minerals Inc. with its companies, associates, and affiliates.

i)       If, with the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors, there is a demerger, merger, incorporation (including incorporation of shares) or any operations or corporate restructuring, which in the BANK's opinion, may lead to non-compliance with the obligations provided for in this document, except (i) those occurring within the Aura Minerals Group and (ii) assets without extraction in the last six (6) months and/or expectations of future extractions;

j)       Change or alteration of the corporate purpose of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors, in order to alter the current main activities of the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third-party guarantors, respectively, or to add to these activities new businesses that take precedence or may represent deviations from the activities currently carried out;

k)       If the EXPORTER, the Importers, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors breach or fail to comply, in whole or in part, with any clause or condition assumed in the Export Documents, as applicable;

l)       If the EXPORTER and/or the GUARANTOR(S) make a false statement to the BANK and/or breach or fail to comply, in whole or in part, with any clause or condition of this Note;

m)       If the EXPORTER, the GUARANTORS and/or any third party guarantors, subsidiary company, partners, directors or officers of any of them is considered a "Restricted Counterparty" or is incorporated in a "Sanctioned Territory", as defined herein: (A) "Restricted Counterparty" means any person, organization or vessel (i) designated on the "List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons" issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("OFAC"); on the "Consolidated List of Persons, Groups and Entities Subject to Financial Sanctions" of the "European Union"; or any similar list of persons targeted by Sanctions (including, for the avoidance of doubt, those issued by the Federative Republic of Brazil); (ii) that is, or is part of a government of, a Sanctioned Territory; or (iii) that is owned or controlled by, or acting on behalf of, any of the foregoing; (B) "Sanctioned Territory" means any country or other territory subject to a general export, import, financial or investment embargo under Sanctions, which countries and territories, as of the date hereof, include Crimea (as defined and interpreted in the applicable Sanctions Laws and regulations) Iran, North Korea and Syria; and (C) "Sanctions" means any economic or trade, laws, regulations, embargoes, freeze provisions, prohibitions or restrictive measures relating to trade, business, investment, exports, financing or the making available of assets, enacted, enforced, imposed or administered by OFAC, the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce, Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom, the European Union or the United Nations Security Council;

n)       In the event that the EXPORTER does not comply with the financial parameters indicated in clause 7.3 below;

o)       If the corporate guarantee ("Corporate Guarantee") guaranteed by Aura Minerals Inc ("Aura") is not constituted in favor of the BANK within 90 (ninety) days of the signature of this Note;

p)       If the pledge of mining concessions ("Mining Pledge") is not signed and filed with the National Mining Agency ("AMN") within 90 (ninety) days of the signing of this Note, it will also be necessary to establish the Mining Pledge in favor of the BANK within 12 (twelve) months of the signing of this Note;

q)       In the event that the EXPORTER does not receive an injection of at least USD 70,000,000.00 (seventy million dollars) during the period of 24 (twenty-four) months ("Grace Period"), of which a minimum of USD 39,000,000.00 (thirty-nine million dollars) shall be via an equity issue ("Equity"), and the remainder, up to a maximum of USD 31.000,000.00 (thirty-one million dollars), via bilateral financial service contracts ("Private Royalties Contract, Private Streaming Contracts and/or Gold Linked Loans Contract"), of which a maximum of USD 10,000,000.00 (ten million dollars) in Gold Linked Loans;

r)       In the event that the EXPORTER acquires new indebtedness, other than that provided for in the above clause, 7.1, "q", via a bilateral contract for the provision of financial services whose value of USD 31,000,000.00 (thirty-one million dollars) is the maximum amount permitted;

s)   If the EXPORTER distributes dividends during the grace period of the Note;

t)       If the EXPORTER does not provide the BANK with the guarantee of Fiduciary Sale of Shares within 90 (ninety) days of signing this Note.

a)       "Net Financial Debt": means the sum of all financial obligations (bank loans, floor plan and seller finance), whether short- or long-term, and from this amount must be deducted cash and cash equivalents (cash and liquid financial investments - 365 days), based on December 31 of each fiscal year ending immediately before each calculation date.

b)       "ANNUALIZED EBITDA": means the 12 (twelve)-month period within a fiscal year, between January 1st and December 31st. EBITDA will be calculated as net income free of:

As for the first calculation exclusively, to be carried out after the end of the grace period, the period between the month immediately following the end of the grace period and the month in which the end of the same fiscal year will occur should be taken into account (e.g. if there are four (4) months between the month immediately following the end of the grace period and the end of the fiscal year, the annualized EBITDA will be the monthly average of the EBITDA incurred in those four (4) months multiplied by 12 (twelve)).

a)       If the SBLC is honored, the LOCAL AGENT shall be subrogated to the BANK's rights under this Note, and the EXPORTER and the GUARANTORS shall reimburse the LOCAL AGENT for all amounts spent by it, in addition to any costs and/or expenses incurred by the LOCAL AGENT.

b)       In the event that the Total Amount of Credit is determined in foreign currency, once the LOCAL AGENT has honored the SBLC, the amount due under this Note shall be converted into Reais, respecting the following:

(i)       The exchange rate to be used for conversions will be the conversion rate of the SBLC currency, sale quotation, published by the Central Bank of Brazil on its website (www.bcb.gov.br), in the menu "Quotations and bulletins" " "Closing quotations of all currencies on a date" at approximately 1:30 p.m. (São Paulo time), calculated on D-1 of the sending of the notice for payment of the SBLC or any other amount paid by the BANK abroad, under the terms of Clause 5 above, as the case may be.

(ii)       If the Central Bank of Brazil fails to provide the aforementioned exchange rate, the average selling rate of that currency applicable to financial transactions, as informed by another body, entity or association that best reflects conditions practiced in the market on the day of the calculation, shall be used for the purposes of currency conversion.

The BANK shall be obliged to provide any information it deems necessary for the analysis of the EXPORTER's export performance/history, for the purpose of granting loans, financing or any other services and products made available by the BANK or for the purpose of contracting and settling foreign exchange transactions. The information accessed by the BANK may only be used for the purposes for which it is intended, and the BANK is responsible for the safekeeping and confidentiality of the data accessed. The EXPORTER declares that it is aware that this authorization includes consultations carried out by the BANK prior to the present date.

a)       They respect and assume the obligation to respect and comply with all social, environmental and climate legislation and regulations during the term of this Cédula, including but not limited to those related to labor legislation, especially rules relating to occupational health and safety, the natural, artificial, cultural and labor environment, public heritage, historical heritage, cultural heritage or urban order, climate change, biodiversity, human rights, specially protected spaces (such as Conservation Units, Permanent Preservation Areas, Legal Reserve Areas, among others);

b)       Its own activities and the activities of any companies directly or indirectly linked, affiliated, controlling or controlled by the EXPORTER and/or the GUARANTOR(S), including abroad, do not encourage human trafficking, sexual exploitation, the criminal exploitation of prostitution, discrimination, harassment or prejudice in all its forms;

c)       They do not use or encourage child labor and/or labor in conditions analogous to slavery or in any way infringe on the rights of forest dwellers, in particular, but not limited to, the right over areas of indigenous occupation, quilombolas or traditional communities, thus recognized, consulting them when necessary, and do not engage in acts of irregular, illegal or criminal exploitation of their lands (subparagraphs "a", "b" and "c" together "Socio-Environmental Legislation"); and

d)       The use of the amounts covered by this Note (i) will only be used for activities that are effectively licensed and carried out in compliance with the conditions established in the relevant authorizing documents and in accordance with Socio-Environmental Legislation, and (ii) is not related to any purposes that may cause social, environmental or climatic damage or irregularities or to any purposes and/or projects that do not strictly comply with Socio-Environmental Legislation.

This signature is an integral part of the                                entered into between BANCO SANTANDER (BRASIL) S/A and on the date of                       .

SÃO PAULO, SEPTEMBER 04, 2023

This signature is an integral part of the                                       entered into between BANCO SANTANDER (BRASIL) S/A and on the date of .

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