Chuquicamata
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Chuquicamata is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world. It is located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama, at 2,850 m above sea level. It is 215 km northeast
The pit viewed from entrance
Haul truck in Chuquicamata in 2016.
Chuquicamata ghost town
Chuquicamata in 1925
Codelco
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The National Copper Corporation of Chile, abbreviated as Codelco, is a Chilean state-owned mining company and the largest copper mining company in the world.
Chuquicamata
…1968 made 500,000 tons annual copper production possible in the late 1970s. Previously part of Anaconda Copper, the mine is now owned and operated by Codelco, a Chilean state enterprise, since the Chilean nationalization of copper in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its depth of 850 metres (2,790 ft) makes…
Molten slag is from Caletones carried outside and poured into a dump, 2005. Caletones serves El Teniente mine in the Andes of Central Chile.