Carajás

Brazil · Open pit

Opened: 1985
Region: Pará
Status: Active
Country: Brazil
Type: Open pit
Latitude: -6.06
Longitude: -50.16

Notes

The richest large iron ore on Earth at around 65 % iron, in the Amazon; the S11D expansion runs without trucks, on conveyors, to keep the forest footprint down.

Commodities

Iron

Referenced by

element

Iron

Open on the Mines & Extraction shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

From the Mines database in Notion, last edited 2026-08-16. This page is the row, rendered by the build; nothing on it is written by hand.