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The Chilean Iron Belt is a geological province rich in iron ore deposits in northern Chile. It extends as a north-south beld along the western part of the Chilean regions of Coquimbo and Atacama, chiefly between the cities of La Serena and Taltal. [1] [2] The belt follows much of the Atacama Fault System and is about 600 km long and 25 km broad ...
The Salta–Antofagasta railway, also named Huaytiquina, [2] is a non-electrified single track railway line that links Argentina and Chile passing through the Andes.It is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway with a total length of 941 km (571 in Argentina [3] and 330 in Chile), connecting the city of Salta (Argentina) to the one of Antofagasta (Chile), on the Pacific Ocean ...
In South America, Argentina and Chile use 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) track gauge, as well as 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) or metre gauge. Brazil uses 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) (known as "Irish gauge", most common for passenger services and a few corridors in the Southeast) and 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) (known as "narrow gauge" or "metre gauge", most common for cargo services).
Metre and 3 ft (914 mm) gauge lines are found in South America. Some of the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge lines cross international borders, though not as efficiently as they might. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile have 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge lines. Colombia and Peru have 3 ft (914 mm) gauge lines.
FCAB railroad crossing the Carcote salar, northern Chile. La Red Norte (in english, 'Northern Network') ran from the extreme north of Chile, where the Arica–La Paz railway is located, to La Calera in the Valparaíso Province. [5] Its tracks were 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge.
The reactivation of a smelter belonging to Chile's state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, will take more time than expected, the country's mining minister Baldo Prokurica said ...
The Transandine Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Trasandino) was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge combined rack and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass, to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km.
The FCAB already interchanged with metre gauge railways running north–south in western Chile, and there was the prospect of connections with lines from Argentina. Thus, in 1913, the FCAB board made a decision to convert the line to metre gauge throughout. Some gauge conversion work was done in 1916, however World War I intervened, and most ...