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.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Martyn Unsworth (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
249.0 KB
Width
1200 px
Height
800 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS REBEL T2i
Exposure
70 mm f/5.6 1/1250 s ISO 100
Taken
5 May 2013
Coordinates
-22.2876, -68.9005
Tint
Purplish gray
Submitted
8 July 2020
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