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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.
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 .
The El Salvador mine is a combined open pit and underground copper mine in the company town of El Salvador. The El Salvador mine was purchased by Anaconda Copper, who had little intention of mining it, due to high tax rates by the Chilean government. When the tax rates were reduced Anaconda decided to bring the mine into production.
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 nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, commonly described as the Chileanization of copper (Spanish: Chilenización del cobre) [1] was the process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the three huge mines known as 'La Gran Mineria' and ...
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The mining sector in Chile has historically been and continues to be one of the pillars of the Chilean economy. [1] Copper exports alone stands for more than one third of government income. Most mining in Chile is concentrated to the Norte Grande region spanning most of the Atacama Desert. Mining products of Chile includes copper, gold, silver ...