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The Kudremukh mines return from mining wasteland to forests and lakes, as mining has stopped and been banned in the region. See the wasteland slowly revert to a natural state. It has a pelletisation plant in Mangalore and had an iron ore mine in Kudremukh (Chikkamagaluru district). The Kudremukh mine, one of the largest iron ore mines in the world, was closed in 2006. The captive mining took place at Kudremukh on the Western Ghats range. Products: Iron ore concentrates; Iron oxide pellets. Industry: Iron making; Mining This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, H