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Serra Pelada mine

Serra Pelada mine, Brazil. Closed, mining gold.

Why Serra Pelada is famous

Wikidata describes it as a former large gold mine in Brazil. The 1980 rush, numbers of diggers, output and closure are only in unopened pages (see NOTES.md).1

Serra Pelada today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Brazil

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An example ofOuro Preto and the Minas Gerais gold fieldsBrazil mined about 1,200 t of gold in the 18th century. Serra Pelada is a former large gold mine.2ExamplesMorro Velho gold mineTwo Brazilian gold mines of different eras: Morro Velho and Serra Pelada.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1319878 (Serra Pelada) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Minas Gerais gold history ICWA
  3. Wikidata item Q137925157 (Morro Velho Mine) Wikidata (CC0)

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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Mijnramp Bois du Caizier, Marcinelle, België. Schacht, Rossem, Wim van / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); NASA's ASTER Shows Brazilian City After Dam Disaster, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).