What this place is
Carajás sits inside protected Amazon forest reached by a 890 km railway. Its ore is clean enough that steelmakers pay extra for it because it cuts their own emissions.
What comes out
Iron Ore
Rust-coloured rock that is roughly one-third to two-thirds iron, and the single largest tonnage the mining industry…
Copper
The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting…
Manganese
A brittle grey metal that steel cannot be made without, and that is now being used to stretch scarce nickel and…
Gold
The metal that does not tarnish, does not corrode and never runs out once mined — which is why almost all of it ever…
A “by-product” is a metal recovered because it happens to be in the same rock, not because anyone went looking for it. Its supply therefore follows the primary metal’s economics, not its own.
Who owns it
| Company | Role | Interest |
|---|---|---|
| Vale | Miner | Owner-operator |
As publicly reported by the operators. Ownership of large mines changes; verify against current company filings before relying on it.