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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- Energy, Resources and the Environment (322)
- Field (2822)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (901)
Location
- South America (318)
- Chile (75)
- Exact location (-68.9005 W, -22.2876 S)
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Canon EOS REBEL T2i
Taken on 5
May
2013
Submitted on 8 July 2020
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Martyn Unsworth (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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