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    Chuquicamata (/tʃuːkiːkəˈmɑːtə/ choo-kee-kə-MAH-tə; referred to as Chuqui for short) is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in...
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    Codelco that is made of the Chuquicamata and Radomiro Tomic mining areas. Copper has been mined for centuries at Chuquicamata as was shown by the discovery...
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  • of mines in Chile organized by product. Candelaria mine Mantos Blancos mine Mantoverde mine Escondida Chanarcillo Los Pelambres mine Chuquicamata El Salvador...
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  • in Chile, which is located near Calama and Chuquicamata, the world's largest open pit copper mining|mine. Due the inexperience of the directors of the...
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    Diavik Diamond Mine - Canada 6. Hull–Rust–Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine - United States 7. Grasberg Mine - Indonesia 8. Chuquicamata - Chile 9. Udachnaya...
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  • Pilar mine La Caridad Mine Alumbrera mine Serrote mine Sossego mine Candelaria mine Carmen de Andacollo mine Chuquicamata Collahuasi mine El Abra mine El...
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    of Antofagasta, some 106 km (60 mi) southeast of Calama and the Chuquicamata copper mine, overlooking the Licancabur volcano. It features a significant...
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    Mining (redirect from Mine (industry))
    (3,900 ft). The largest and second deepest open-pit copper mine in the world is Chuquicamata in northern Chile at 900 metres (3,000 ft), which annually...
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    is the third oldest active open pit copper mine in the world after the Bingham Canyon Mine and Chuquicamata.[citation needed] An Apache Indian showed Spanish...
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  • visited Chuquicamata copper mine, the world's largest open-pit mine and the primary source of Chile's wealth. While getting a tour of the mine he asked...
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    Escondida (redirect from Escondida Mine)
    Spence mines (1.640 m elevation), where solar energy is more than 3.000 kWh/m2 per year. Chuquicamata El Teniente El Salvador mine Los Pelambres mine Potrerillos...
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    along the porphyry copper belt between Chuquicamata in the north and El Salvador in the south. Minera Utah de Chile and Getty Mining (Chile) formed a...
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    Chilean nationalization of copper (category Copper mines in Chile)
    Copper Corporation. The La Exotica mine, an adjunct of Chuquicamata, was added to these big mines in 1966.These large mines were mainly self-contained and...
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    San Francisco de Chiu Chiu, Aiquina-Turi, and Caspana. In 2003 the nearby town of Chuquicamata, once the largest open-pit copper mine in the world, was...
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  • Charles Brinckerhoff (category Columbia School of Mines alumni)
    owned the Chuquicamata mine, the largest copper mine in the world. Under his leadership, the production doubled, and the pay for workers at the mine became...
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    Sherman Mine – abandoned iron mine in Temagami, Ontario Canadian Malartic Gold mine (Largest in Canada) Chuquicamata – copper mine Escondida – copper mine Pascua...
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    Afghanistan; Australia (Victoria and Queensland); north India; northern Chile (Chuquicamata); Cornwall; Saxony; Silesia; and Turkestan. The pastel shades of turquoise...
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    France, in the year 1961. Its type locality is Queténa Mine, Toki Cu deposit, Chuquicamata District, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile...
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    angered by the working conditions of the miners at Anaconda's Chuquicamata copper mine, moved by his overnight encounter in the Atacama Desert with a...
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    the largest and richest open pit mines in the world are located inland from Antofagasta: La Escondida and Chuquicamata. Each province in the region is...
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    of the Chilean labour movement) and the newly nationalized copper mine of Chuquicamata. Castro then went south to Concepción and the coal mining town of...
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    of copper extracted and processed in Chuquicamata, while its tower was lined with the same material of the mine Radomiro Tomic. The Cathedral was consecrated...
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    El Teniente (category Copper mines in Chile)
    the highway leading to the mine. Escondida Chanarcillo Los Pelambres mine Potrerillos, Chile Chuquicamata El Salvador mine Mining in Chile Wikimedia Commons...
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    the financial district in Santiago de Chile. Front view of the Central Bank of Chile building. Chuquicamata copper mine. Wines of Chile. List of airlines...
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    S. titles purchased still. Chuquicamata El Teniente El Salvador mine Los Pelambres mine Chanarcillo Escondida "Origen de la gran minería del cobre (1904-1930)"...
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  • operation in Chile (Chuquicamata), was acquired from the Guggenheims in 1923. It cost Anaconda $77 million and was the largest copper mine in the world. It...
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    Teniente Chuquicamata Los Pelambres mine Potrerillos, Chile Chanarcillo Escondida Walsh, Heather (2007-07-20). "Codelco to Resume Output at Copper Mine, Workers...
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    of El Teniente copper mine during the government of Salvador Allende. TEC's last performance in Chile was at the Chuquicamata mine, in the northern part...
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  • looking for work as well. The duo then accompanies the couple to the Chuquicamata copper mine, where Guevara becomes angry at the treatment of the workers. However...
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    Bolivia, including the Bolivian coast. Chile took control of today's Chuquicamata area, the adjoining rich salitre (saltpeter) fields, and the port of...
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