Production began in December of 2016, and the first ore was loaded on ships in January of 2017. Production will reach 90 million tonnes of iron ore by 2018, but the transport infrastructure built as part of the S11D project will also support 230 Mt/y of production from other mines to the northeast near Carajas.  维基百科上的资料，上面说90mt的产量在2018年就能达产。整个S11D项目可以支持2.3亿吨的出口。其中部分替代其他低品质矿是对的，但是在目前的矿石价格下，3大矿山都有100%以上的毛利，所以扩产冲动都很强。