Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile
Aerial view of the Chuquicamata copper mine in Northern Chile. This is the largest open pit copper mine in the world by volume. At this location the copper and molybdenum is extracted from a porphyry deposit that was formed beneath a volcano in the Andean subduction zone.
Taken on 5
May
2013
Submitted on 08 July 2020
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- Energy, Resources and the Environment (265)
- Field (2583)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (790)
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- South America (276)
- Chile (63)
- Exact location (-68.9005 W, -22.2876 S)
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Credit: Martyn Unsworth (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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