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This is a list of mines in Brazil organized by mineral. Bauxite. Paragominas mine — Par á; Gold. Chapada — ...
The mining sector's revenue in Brazil was R$153.4 billion in 2019. Exports were U$32.5 billion. The country's iron ore production was 410 million tons in 2019. Brazil is the second largest global iron ore exporter and has the second position in the reserve ranking: under Brazilian soil there are at least 29 billion tons .
Vale's Mariana Hub was the 9th largest iron ore mining center in the world in 2014, with an output of 39 million metric tonnes. [11] Vale's Serra Sul / S11D is the largest mining reserve in the world. The company's iron ore mines are primarily in Brazil. [5] Nickel: Vale is the world's largest nickel producer. [10]
The Carajás Mine is the largest iron ore mine in the world. It is located in the municipality of Parauapebas, state of Pará in the Carajás Mountains of northern Brazil.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.
Serra Pelada was a large gold mine in Brazil, 430 kilometres (270 mi) south of the mouth of the Amazon River. The mine was made infamous by the still images taken by Alfredo Jaar and later by Sebastião Salgado and the first section of Godfrey Reggio 's 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi , showing an anthill of workers moving vast amounts of ore by hand.
The Paracatu mine is one of the largest gold surface mines in Brazil, and also in the world. [1] The mine is located in Minas Gerais state, in the southcentral region of Brazil. [1] It is owned and operated by the Canadian Kinross Gold mining company. The mine has estimated reserves of 17.5 million oz of gold. [1]
The production of cashew in Brazil is carried out almost exclusively in the Northeast. The area occupied by cashew trees in Brazil in 2017 was estimated at 505,500 ha; of this total, 99.5% is located in the Northeast. The main producers in this region are Ceará (61.6% of the national area), Rio Grande do Norte and Piauí.
Brazil produces about 6 million tons of coal per year, and total coal reserves are estimated at 32.3 billion tons. [1] [2] [3] Brazil's coal-mining region is located in the southern part of the country, and the reserves are distributed among the states of Paraná (1 percent), Santa Catarina (46 percent), and Rio Grande do Sul (53 percent). The ...