The Carajás Mountains or Serra dos Carajás are a mountain range to the west of the municipality of
Marabá in the
Pará state of
Brazil
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. Monte Redenção, Marabá's highest point, is located there.
The mountains are contained in the
Carajás National Forest
The Carajás National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional de Carajás) is a national forest in the state of Pará, Brazil. It covers the Serra dos Carajás (Carajás Mountains), an area with large deposits of iron ore, and attempts to combine the roles ...
, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 1998 that includes mining operations in a huge deposit of high-grade iron ore.
See also
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Carajás Mine Carajás may refer to:
* Carajás Mine
* Carajás Airport
* Canaã dos Carajás
* Eldorado dos Carajás
* Carajás (proposed Brazilian state)
* ''Carajas'' (spider)
* Karajá or Carajás, an indigenous tribe of Brazil
* Gurgel Carajás
Gurgel ...
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S11D
S11D, or Serra Sul, is an iron ore mining project undertaken by Vale in Serra dos Carajás, Brazil. It is the largest iron ore mine project in the world, at 90 million tonnes per year.
Project
The project is a $19.5 billion investment, which is ...
References
Further reading
* Newton Pereira de Rezende, ''Carajás: memórias da descoberta'', Editora Gráfica Stamppa, 2009, 316 pg. Book in Portuguese telling the history of Carajás' iron mines' discovery.
Mountain ranges of Brazil
Landforms of Pará
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