One of the larger pits in the base of the open cast mine
Chuquicamata copper mine in 1984 Chuquicamata, or "Chuqui," as it is commonly called, is the second largest open pit copper mine in the world. It was named after a small city in the north-west of Chile. It began copper production on May 18, 1915. The Bingham Canyon Mine in the U.S. state of Utah is a larger excavation than Chuquicamata, but Chuquicamata produces more copper. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 275 KB)Aerial photograph of one part of the Chuquicamata copper mine (the worlds largest copper mine, and one of the largest open pit mines in the world). ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 275 KB)Aerial photograph of one part of the Chuquicamata copper mine (the worlds largest copper mine, and one of the largest open pit mines in the world). ...
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El Chino, located near Silver City, New Mexico, is an open-pit copper mine Open-pit mining, or opencast mining, refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic pinkish red Standard atomic weight 63. ...
Chuquicamata, the largest open pit copper mine in the world, Chile. ...
May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
The Bingham Canyon Mine is an open-pit mine extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. ...
This article in its current state refers to the mine located near the former location of the city of Chuquicamata.
Chuquicamata is located 15 km north of the city of Calama in the region of Antofagasta. The mine is elliptical in form, with a surface of almost 8,000,000 m2, and it is 900 m deep. City motto: ( Calama, land of sun and copper ) Founded XVI century, Original Name Ckolam Region Antofagasta Region Area - City Proper 15. ...
Antofagasta is Chiles second administrative region from north to south. ...
History
The area has been exploited since pre-Hispanic times. The word Chuquicamata comes from the Aymara language and refers to the first inhabitants of the zone. The territory where the mine is located passed from Bolivian to Chilean control and sovereignty due to the War of the Pacific and the subsequent treaties. Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara of the Andes. ...
Combatants Republic of Peru Republic of Bolivia Republic of Chile Commanders Juan BuendÃa Andrés Cáceres Miguel Grau Manuel Baquedano Patricio Lynch Juan Williams Strength Peru-Bolivian Army 7,000 soldiers in 1878 Peruvian Navy 2 ironclad, 1 corvette, 1 gunboat Army of Chile 4,000 soldiers in...
In 1912, the Guggenheim Brothers, an American organization, acquired the control over the Chuquicamata fields, and created the Chile Exploration Company. The construction finally started in February of 1913. Production steadily increased from an early yield of 45,000 metric tons annually, to 51,000 tons in 1918, 100,000 tons in 1923, and 200,000 tons by 1937.
The first copper bar, during its contemporary history, was produced on May 18, 1915 by the US company Guggenheim Bros. The company continued the mining exploitation with the names Chilean Exploration Co, Chile Copper Co., and Anaconda Co., until copper mining was nationalized during the Salvador Allende administration. May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Salvador Allende Gossens[1] (July 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from November 1970 until his suicide during the coup détat of September 11, 1973. ...
Until 1999 Chuquicamata had the name "Codelco Chile Division Chuquicamata", since then Codelco has renamed it to "Codelco Norte". CODELCO (full name in Spanish: Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile; in English: Chilean National Copper Corporation) is a state-owned company in Chile and the worlds largest copper producer with estimated 200 years of copper reserves. ...
Today, the state-owned Chilean National Copper Corporation Codelco controls the mine. In 2003 encroachment by the growing mine and increased enforcement of pollution regulations forced the dismantling of the city of Chuquicamata — founded as a mining camp — workers and inhabitants were then relocated to the nearby city of Calama. CODELCO (full name in Spanish: Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile; in English: Chilean National Copper Corporation) is a state-owned company in Chile and the worlds largest copper producer with estimated 200 years of copper reserves. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It has been suggested that Pollutant be merged into this article or section. ...
City motto: ( Calama, land of sun and copper ) Founded XVI century, Original Name Ckolam Region Antofagasta Region Area - City Proper 15. ...
In the next 10 years Codelco has plans to make Chuquicamata an underground mine, mainly because the pit is becoming deeper and it makes the process of extracting the mineral difficult. The changes also mean that "Chuquicamata" will substantially improve its capacity for processing copper. CODELCO (full name in Spanish: Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile; in English: Chilean National Copper Corporation) is a state-owned company in Chile and the worlds largest copper producer with estimated 200 years of copper reserves. ...
Economic and environmental effects Copper mining has long been the most consistent of Chilean exports; and in current day, it still accounts for almost one-third of all foreign trade. Yet that 1/3 is down from a peak of almost 75% in earlier years.
Copper has been mined in the land area between central Chile and southern Peru since Colonial times. Yet it wasn’t until the 20th century that copper reached the status importance of other mining exports such as saltpeter or silver. Because of the introduction of artificial nitrates, post World War I, the world market for saltpeter, which was Chile’s main export, collapsed. In turn, Chile’s economy became heavily dependent on the copper industry; it was that period that copper became known as “Chile’s salary”. “The Great War †redirects here. ...
By the late 1950s, the three largest copper mines in Chile were Chuquicamata, El Salvador, and El Teniente. Chuquicamata and El Salvador were owned and operated by the Anaconda Copper Company. These mines were mainly self-contained and self-sustaining settlements. They were complete with their own cities to house the workers, their own water and electrical plants, schools, stores, railways, and even in certain cases their own police forces. These mines were extremely beneficial in an economical sense, for they provided steady jobs and a steady income for the nation of Chile. The Anaconda Copper Mine was a large copper mine in Butte. ...
Chuquicamata in popular culture Chuquicamata was featured in the 2nd Leg of The Amazing Race All Stars where the All-Star teams of the show had to either change the bolts and nuts of a giant wheel or use a machine to transport sand around the construction site. The Amazing Race 11 (titled The Amazing Race: All-Stars) is the eleventh installment of the popular four time Emmy Award winner reality television show, The Amazing Race. ...
See Also The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, (Chilenization) during the Salvador Allende government was the espoused basis for a later international boycott, which further isolated Chile from the world economy, worsening the state of political polarization. ...
External links -Economic Geology, Volume 96, 2001, pp.249-270 Image File history File links Commons-logo. ...
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Coordinates: 22°17′S, 68°54′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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