The mine is located in Northeastern Brazil, in the municipality of Mataraca, about 1,100 km from the Bahia plant, to which it ships the minerals to be transformed into the TiO₂ pigment. The mining operation occupies 1,050 hectares and comprises a floating plant and dredge, which perform the extraction of the ilmenite (a titanium ore) and of zirconite, rutile and cyanite (used in the ceramic, welding, high precision casting and refractions industries), as well as four fixed production plants.