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In 2019, Brazil's figures were as follows: it was the world's largest producer of niobium (88.9 thousand tons); [2] the 2nd largest world producer of tantalum (430 tons); [3] the 2nd largest world producer of iron ore (405 million tons); [4] the 4th largest world producer of manganese (1.74 million tons); [5] the 4th largest world producer of bauxite (34 million tons); [6] the 4th largest ...
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
Vale's Serra Sul / S11D is the largest mining reserve in the world. The company's iron ore mines are primarily in Brazil. [8] Nickel: Vale is the world's largest nickel producer. [13] Sales of nickel represented 17% of total company revenues in 2014. In 2014, Vale sold 272,000 metric tonnes of nickel. [8] The company owns nickel mines in Canada ...
Hochschild Mining plans to invest about $200 million in the construction of a gold mine in Brazil, a project it will launch in the second quarter of the year, Chief Executive Officer Ignacio ...
CBMM is by far the world's largest producer of niobium metal and its alloys, providing over 80% of the world's supply. [2] Like the other producers of this metal, the company does not sell raw niobium ore, only ferroniobium, other niobium alloys and oxides, and the pure metal, all produced in its facilities next to the open-pit mine. [3]
The collapse of Vale's Brumadinho iron ore tailings dam in Brazil was both shocking and devastating in its impact. It was the 11th serious tailings dam failure in the last decade and such ...
Rank Country Usable iron ore production (× 1000 tonnes) Year World 2,500,000: 2022 1: Australia: 880,000: 2023 2: China: 659,000: 2023 3: Brazil: 422,000: 2023 4 ...
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.