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Ouro Preto

Boom town, Brazil, founded 1711.

About Ouro Preto

Municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.1

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Mines

Worked atOuro Preto and the Minas Gerais gold fieldsOuro Preto lies close to Ouro Preto and the Minas Gerais gold fields.1

Events

Led toFundao tailings dam collapse at MarianaOuro Preto is part of this story: Fundao tailings dam collapse at Mariana.1

Places

ExamplesDiamantinaAnother boom town in Brazil: Ouro Preto.2

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q188905 (Ouro Preto)
  2. Wikidata item Q34028 (Diamantina)

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)).