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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.
False color satellite image of the Escondida Mine, courtesy of NASA. Minera Escondida (which means 'hidden' in Spanish) is a mining company that operates two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world.
Total resources (including reserves) were 57.6 million tonnes of copper, of which 33.0 million tonnes should be recovered. Exploration continues. [4] As of 2019, the known resource is 21.7 Billion tonnes at 0.54 percent Copper including Escondida and adjacent deposits. The mine and ancillary industries contributes 2.5% to Chile’s GDP. [5]
The Collahuasi mine is a large copper mine located at high altitude in the north of Chile in the Tarapaca Region.Collahuasi represents one of the largest copper reserves in Chile and in the world having estimated reserves of 3.93 billion tonnes of ore grading 0.66% copper.
Family, rest, hot food -- and a really cool pair of shades. That's what a miner needs after being trapped underground for more than two months. Eyewear and sporting equipment maker Oakley is ...
Chile's state-owned copper mining giant Codelco on Wednesday shut down its Ventanas copper smelter after decades of polluting Quintero Bay with toxic gases and turning it, along with 15 other ...
The sol firmed 0.4% on hopes that miners could resume copper production at the Antamina mine. Peru is the world's second largest copper producer and the protests had sent the currency to three ...
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 ...