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Araxa (CBMM) mine

Araxa (CBMM) mine, Brazil. Producing, open pit, mining niobium, phosphate rock.

Why Araxa (CBMM) is famous

CBMM's Araxa in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a niobium and phosphate mine. History not yet sourced.1

What kind of deposit

Carbonatite and alkaline intrusion

Araxa (CBMM) today

Where niobium is mined todayWhere phosphate rock is mined todayMining in Brazil

Where next

Mines

ExamplesNiobecNiobium from Quebec's Niobec and Brazil's CBMM Araxa.1ExamplesKhibiny apatite minesPhosphate on two continents: Khibiny apatite in Russia and Araxa in Brazil.2

Deposit types

An example ofCarbonatite and alkaline intrusionAraxa (CBMM) belongs to the carbonatite and alkaline intrusion family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Russia (advance release) US Geological Survey
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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