Mining and Colonialism in Brazil's Giant Carajás …
Vale's crown jewel is the Carajás Project. Its iron ore has the highest degree of purity in the world, and in such quantity that it can be extracted for another 250 years at current rates. The Carajás Project …
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Carajás National Forest: Iron Ore Plateaus and Caves in
The Carajás National Forest covers an area of 411,949 ha and is located in the southeastern Brazilian Amazon (Fig. 25.1 ), approximately 540 km south of Belém, the capital city of the state of Pará. The region experiences two types of climates: The continental equatorial climate corresponds to an extensive region of hilly lowland areas ...
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The scarred landscapes created by humanity's material thirst
The Carajas Mine in Brazil, one of the largest iron ore mines on the planet (Credit: Getty Images) The world's desire for electronics, fuel and geological riches is etched in devastating shapes ...
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Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of …
The Carajás mine serves as an example of the economic potential of mining and of mining's environmental impact in the Amazon region. Iron ore is Brazil´s largest mineral export and accounts ...
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Introduction: Overview of the global iron ore industry
The largest iron ore mine is Carajas located in the state of Para (see Fig. 1.19), which is wholly owned and operated by Vale. The second largest is the Samarco Alegria mine located in the state of Minas Gerais, which is owned and operated as a 50:50 Joint Venture between Vale and BHP. Vale is the largest producer in Brazil with total …
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The world's biggest iron ore mines
The Vale-owned Carajas mine in the state of Para in Northern Brazil is the world's biggest iron ore mine holding 7.27 billion tonnes of proven and probable reserves as of December 2012. Carajas is an open pit mining operation targeting the Serra Norte, Serra Sul, and the Serra Leste iron ore deposits in the Carajás District.
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Iron ore mining in the Amazon / Carajas mines (Pará, Brazil)
The largest iron ore mine in the Amazon is called Carajás, located in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. It was discovered in 1967 and is considered the largest iron ore reserve on the planet. The value of its production is currently estimated at US$13 billion. Vale is the company that manages the exploitation of iron ore, the second ...
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Vale deploys autonomous trucks at Carajás iron ore complex
Global Mining Review, Monday, 06 September 2021 12:30. Advertisement. Vale has started operating six autonomous haul trucks at the Carajás iron ore complex, in the state of Pará, Brazil, and, by the end of the year, 10 vehicles will be operating at the site. This initiative is part of a set of actions aimed at increasing employee safety ...
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Forests and caves of iron: An Amazon dilemma
The Carajas complex is the largest iron ore mine on the planet and at any one time 3,000 people are toiling here in the tropical heat using a fleet of giant machines including trucks the size of ...
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Brazil's Carajás Mines
The terraced appearance is a result of the open pit mining method, in which layers are excavated one at a time. Nine iron ore deposits exist along the Serra Norte (Northern Range). According to a …
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Vale gains environmental clearance to expand Carajás open pit mine …
Gaining the oeprating licence will clear the way to commence production by 2015 and 2016 in the Carajás mining complex. Vale, the world's largest iron ore producer, is investing $37bn on iron ore mining and logistics projects. The company proposes to push its output to about 450 million tonnes by 2018, reported Bloomberg.
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Carajas Iron Ore Mine, Brazil
Carajás Mine, the world's largest iron ore mine, is located in the state of Para in Northern Brazil. Fully owned by Brazilian miner …
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CARAJÁS MINING in the Amazon Region
CARAJÁS is an integrated mine-railroad-port system, built and operated by Companhia Vale do Rio Doce-CVRD, and it is today the backbone of the economic and social development of a huge area of north/northeastern Brazil. Today at Carajás, CVRD mines and processes 45 million tons of iron ore annually, as well as 1.5 millions tons of …
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Carajas Iron Ore Mine, Brazil
of iron ore at the Carajas Mine for 2009, against 301.7Mt in 2008. Brazil is currently the world's largest exporter of iron ore with annual production of over 510Mt. Carajas iron ore mine expansion In 2007, Vale approved an expansion project of the Carajas mine. The $2.48bn project, Carajas 130, would add 30 million tons a year to the
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Vale's huge Carajas iron ore mining complex set to start …
The Serra Norte iron ore mining area is part of Vale's Northern System, and is located in the municipality of Parauapebas, which is in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil. The N4W, N4E and N5 mines are currently operating, generally referred to as the Carajas mining complex. ... There is a very large truck fleet in the Carajas mines which ...
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Carajás Mine, Brazil
Carajás Mine, Brazil The terraced layers of red earth that make up the Carajás Iron Ore Mine contrast with the deep green Amazon Rainforest in this cloud-free image. This image originally appeared in the NASA …
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Brazil's Vale launches self-driving trucks at its …
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA (VALE3.SA) said on Thursday it had begun using self-driving trucks for the first time at its Carajas complex, its largest iron ore mining ...
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Inside the world's largest iron ore mine
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the Carajas mining complex is a series of vast man-made chasms, extracting iron ore around the clock. ... Video, 00:01:45 Inside the world's largest iron ore ...
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Mining in Brazil – statistics & facts | Statista
Iron ore mine production in Brazil in 2021, by state (in million metric tons) Premium Statistic Iron ore export value from Brazil 2010-2023 ...
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Simandou Iron Ore Project
The Simandou iron ore project is located in eastern Guinea, approximately 600km from the Guinean coast and 400km from the Liberian coast. Image courtesy of Rio Tinto. The Simandou iron ore mine is located in southeast Guinea, Africa. First production from the mine is expected in 2015.
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Carajas Mine, Brazil
Nov. 13, 2018. The Carajas Mine is the largest open-pit iron ore mine in the world. It is located in the state of Para, northern Brazil. The mine is estimated to contain over 7 billion tons of iron ore, plus gold, manganese, bauxite, copper and nickel. Ore is loaded into rail cars, and shipped to the Atlantic port city of Sao Luis over 250 ...
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Mining and Colonialism in Brazil's Giant Carajás Project
The Carajás Project complex includes the mine, a 900-kilometer railway, and a port at São Luis. To supply the mine and other aluminum projects in the Amazon with power, the construction of the Tucuruí hydroelectric plant– with a capacity of 8,300 megawatts–was necessary. Of the 100 million tons of iron Vale exports each year, some …
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Landsat Image Gallery
Nine iron ore deposits exist along the Serra Norte (Northern Range). According to a 2013 study, mining at four of Serra Norte's main pits had produced 1.2 billion tons of high-grade iron ore. ... (2018, November 13) PIA22861: Carajas Mine, Brazil. Accessed December 31, 2018. Minedat, Serra Norte mine, Parauapebas, Carajás mineral ...
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For Brazil communities along a mining railway, impacts …
The Carajás Railroad runs 892 kilometers (554 miles) from the world's largest open-pit iron ore mine to the port of Ponta da Madeira on Brazil's Atlantic coast, …
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Carajás Mine, Brazil
In 2007, 296 million metric tons of iron ore were pulled from the mine. The mine is estimated to contain about 18 billion tons of iron ore, plus gold, manganese, copper, …
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Iron ore mining in the Amazon / Carajas mines (Pará, Brazil)
(1) Carajás National Forest. IUCN Category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources). Source: IsabeleC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia …
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To carry iron to the world, Brazil's 500-mile rail …
October 27, 2022. • 11 min read. At the edge of the Amazon rainforest state of Pará, in north-central Brazil, sits the largest iron ore pit mine on the planet. Extracted from the depths of...
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Ferro Carajás S11D
The Carajás iron ore mine, lying in the south of the state of Pará, is known not only for its size, but also for the high quality of the iron ore extracted, today considered the purest in the world. Marabá, Pará -50.176944. Longitude-6.058611. Latitud
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Vale opens largest iron ore mine in its history
Photo courtesy of Vale. Vale SA (NYSE:VALE) cut the ribbon on a massive iron ore mine in Brazil on Saturday – the largest in its history and what the world's largest iron ore producer says is ...
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