Official records: 44.5 tons Black market estimate: 360 tons[1]
History
Opened
1980
Closed
1986
Serra Pelada (English: "Naked Mountain Range") is a Brazilian village, district of the municipality of Curionópolis, in the southeast of Pará.
Serra Pelada was a large gold mine in Brazil, 430 kilometres (270 mi) south of the mouth of the Amazon River. The mine was made infamous by the still images taken by Alfredo Jaar and later by Sebastião Salgado and the first section of Godfrey Reggio's 1988 documentary Powaqqatsi, showing an anthill of workers moving vast amounts of ore by hand. Because of the chaotic nature of the operation estimating the number of miners was difficult, but at least 100,000 people were thought to be present, making it one of the largest mines in the world.[2] Today the Serra Pelada mine is abandoned and the giant open pit that was created by hand has filled with water, creating a small polluted lake.[3]
SerraPelada (English: "Naked Mountain Range") is a Brazilian village, district of the municipality of Curionópolis, in the southeast of Pará. Serra Pelada...
since 2017. Do UOL, em São Paulo (4 August 2014). ""Faroeste Caboclo" e "SerraPelada" lideram indicações em Grande Prêmio10". UOL CINEMA. Portal UOL. Retrieved...
kilograms (3,123 ozt). Three of the biggest nuggets come from the Brazilian SerraPelada mine. Most of the largest nuggets were melted down into ingots and so...
soundtrack, written by Philip Glass. In the beginning chapter, SerraPelada, men from SerraPelada (a gold mine in Brazil) are seen carrying bags of dirt up...
Homem do Futuro João (Zero) 2012 Father's Chair Theo 2013 Elysium Spider SerraPelada Lindo Rico Futuro Beach Donato 2014 Rio, I Love You Gui Segment "Inútil...
South and Southeast regions. His film debut was in the feature film SerraPelada (2013), which later became a series on Globo. During a performance of...
the Pepita Canaa, was found on September 13, 1983, by miners at the SerraPelada Mine in the State of Para, Brazil. Weighing 1,955 troy ounces (60.8 kg;...
Album Rock Tracks chart. The album cover features a photograph of the SerraPelada gold mine by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. All tracks were...
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dollars. 1974: Manaus-Porto Velho highway opens. 1980: Gold deposit at SerraPelada is discovered. By 1986, an estimated 42 tons of gold are extracted from...
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