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Will the Grand Carajás project Help Brazil?
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... Will the Grand Carajás project Help Brazil? The Grand Carajás is in Pará State, part of the Amazon basin in the North region of Brazil. The main purpose of it is to provide cheap raw materials to the world. It covers an area of 900,000 sq Kilometers. The Brazilian government is running this program which includes ranching, forestry and settlement projects however the main type of mining is the iron ore. The mine is on Serra do Carajás. Mineral extraction sites are served by the Carajás railroad, which connects Maraba in the State of Para, to Sao Luiz, capital of the State of Maranhao (Northeastern region) and the Itaqui and Ponta de Madeira ports. This new railway takes twelve trains a day to export 8% of the world's iron ore through to the port of São Luis. The 890km Carajás railroad was originally constructed to transport millions of tonnes of iron














