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Pitinga mine

Pitinga mine, Brazil. Producing, open pit, mining tin, niobium, tantalum.

Why Pitinga is famous

Brazilian tin, niobium and tantalum mine. History not yet sourced.1

Pitinga today

Where tin is mined todayWhere niobium is mined todayWhere tantalum is mined todayMining in BrazilPitinga mine (Mineracao Taboca) project page

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)

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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