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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.
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
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 ...
A closed rock salt mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem partially collapsed Sunday in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio, the city's civil defense authority said. It quoted ...
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The Paragominas mine is a large mine located in the northern part of Brazil in Pará. Paragominas is one of the largest bauxite mines in the world, having estimated reserves of 1 billion tonnes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is currently controlled by Norsk Hydro , who purchased a 60% stake in the mine from Vale in 2010.
This list of deepest mines includes operational and non-operational mines that are at least 2,212 m (7,257 ft), which is the depth of Veryovkina Cave, the deepest known natural cave in the world. The depth measurements in this list represent the difference in elevation from the entrance of the mine to the deepest excavated point.