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Chuquicamata (/ tʃ uː k iː k ə ˈ m ɑː t ə / choo-kee-kə-MAH-tə; referred to as Chuqui for short) is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world. [citation needed] It is located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama, at 2,850 m (9,350 ft) above sea level.
English: Panoramic view of Chuquicamata, a state-owned copper mine located at 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level just outside Calama, north of Chile. It is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world. The huge hole was started in 1882 as a mine to extract gold and copper.
Location of the La Escondida and Chuquicamata copper mines in Chile False color satellite image of Escondida (bottom) and neighbouring Zaldívar mines (top), April 2000. Escondida is a copper mine at 3,100 metres (10,200 ft) elevation in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta Region, Chile. [1]
Minera Utah de Chile and Getty Mining (Chile) formed a joint venture to carry it out. On March 14, 1981, 'Pozo 6' the last scheduled borehole in the program, [ 5 ] hit 52 metres of 1.51% copper at a depth of 240 metres and discovered the main Escondida orebody. [ 7 ]
San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region.It is located east of Antofagasta, some 106 km (60 mi) southeast of Calama and the Chuquicamata copper mine, overlooking the Licancabur volcano.
The full reactivation of a smelter belonging to Chile's state-run Codelco, the world's top copper producer, will be delayed until the end of October after missing a previous target of April, four ...
The Chilean Antarctic Territory, [12] is an area of Antarctica [13] of 1,250,257.6 km 2 between meridians 53°W and 90°W on which Chile claims sovereignty, extending its southern boundary to the South Pole. Because of its presence in the Americas, Oceania and Antarctica, Chile describes itself as a tricontinental country. [10] [14] [15]
Candelaria mine; Carmen de Andacollo mine; Chuquicamata; Collahuasi mine; El Abra mine; El Teniente underground mine; Escondida mine; Esperanza mine; Los Bronces mine; Los Pelambres mine; Quebrada Blanca mine; Sierra Gorda Copper Mine Project [1] Tres Valles mine; Zaldivar mine