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The mine is located in the mining concession area of the Carajás National Forest, accessible via road from Canaã dos Carajás in the Pará region of Brazil. The site has one of the world's richest ore bodies, [ 6 ] with over 4 billion tonnes of reserves and ferrous content around 66%.
The mine is operated as an open-pit mine, and is estimated to contain roughly 7.2 billion metric tonnes of iron ore, plus gold, manganese, bauxite, copper, and nickel. [1] The mine is run by the Brazilian mining corporation Vale (formerly the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce), and was initially part-owned with US Steel from 1970 to 1977. [1]
Iron mine in Itabira, Minas Gerais. Mining in Brazil is centered on the extraction of iron (the second largest global iron ore exporter), copper, gold, aluminum (bauxite-one of the 5 biggest world's productors), manganese (one of the 5 biggest world's productors), tin (one of the biggest world's productors), niobium (concentrates 98% of the known niobium reserves in the world), and nickel.
Vale's Carajás Iron Mine, Pará, 2009 NASA satellite photo. Iron ore: Vale is the world's largest iron ore producer. [10] Sales of iron ore fines and pellets represented 65% of total company revenues in 2014. In 2014, Vale sold 256 million metric tonnes of iron ore fines and 44 million metric tonnes of iron ore pellets. [5]
The world's largest iron ore mining project, S11D, is being built nearby. [6] The municipality contains 30% of the Carajás National Forest , a 411,949 hectares (1,017,950 acres) sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.
Arianne Risso worked every day to help her patients battle cancer. It crashed in the city of Vinhedo, and footage of the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop plunging while in a flat spin horrified people ...
Alegria mine — Minas Gerais; Anglo Ferrous Metals (AFM) Minas-Rio Project — Minas Gerais; Carajás Mine — Parauapebas, Pará; Corumbá (mine) — Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul; Serra Sul (S11D) — near Canaã dos Carajás, Pará
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Toronto-based Brazil Potash Corp has laid out for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro this week its plans to reduce his country's dependence on fertilizer imports disrupted by ...