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With over 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) of underground drifts, [3] El Teniente is reportedly "the world's biggest underground copper mine", [4] [5] and is the largest of Codelco's operations. [6] Typically more than 5,000 workers were involved in production. [7] Since 2011, a structural project called New Mine Level (NML) has been underway at El ...
The 1945 El Teniente mining accident, known locally as the Smoke Tragedy (Spanish: La tragedía del humo), is the largest mining accident in metal extraction in the history of Chile and, as of 2005, worldwide. It happened on June 19, 1945, in Chile's El Teniente mine in the Andes, which belonged to Braden Copper Company, a subsidiary of ...
The town was founded in 1906 by the Braden Copper Company as a company town to support extracting copper from the El Teniente mine. [2] It was named after the company's first president, Barton Sewell. During the Great Depression, the Braden Copper Company became a subsidiary of Kennecott Copper Company. In 1917 the foundry or smelter was moved ...
Chile´s state-run Codelco said on Saturday it would temporarily halt construction on a new level at its flagship El Teniente mine, a move it said necessary to combat the fast-spreading ...
A huge fully electric-powered 14-ton loading shovel has begun operating at Chile's century-old El Teniente copper mine, in what state miner Codelco said on Wednesday was a first for South America.
In 1935, the Braden Copper Company signed the World Copper Agreement along with the rest of the world's principle mining companies. In 1945, the company constructed the Braden Copper Stadium in the city of Rancagua, now called Estadio El Teniente. This stadium would be seat of the 1962 FIFA World Cup.
Chile´s state-run Codelco said on Monday it would implement new measures at its El Teniente copper mine, the company´s largest deposit, to maintain operations amid increasing worker angst over ...
The region is known for El Teniente in the nearby Andes mountain range: it is the "largest underground copper mine in the world." [3] It is located about 40 km (25 mi) to the east of the city. El Teniente is a division of the state-owned mining enterprise, Codelco.