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Bahia
Maracás vanadium mine
Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: vanadiferous magnetite, ilmenite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Magnetite vanadium orebody brought into production in 2014 on the Maracás plateau
Documented deposit in Brazilian economic geology.
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