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Carajás Mine - Brazil

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Nasa/Novapix

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t-sabrl-00009

Date

2017-10-14

The Carajas 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 tons of iron ore, plus gold, manganese, bauxite, copper, and nickel. Seen from the international space station on July 26 2015.