MARSHITE AND OTHER MINERALS FROM …

Chuquicamata material to be present in the mineral itself, and not due to mechanically admixed atacamite. Upon heating in the closed tube, purple fumes of iodine are given off, which condense higher up the tube as purple crystals of iodine. Occurrence. AII the specimens come from the south end of the open

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Timing and formation of porphyry Cu–Mo mineralization …

Miner Deposita (2013) 48:629–651 DOI 10.1007/s00126-012-0452-1 ARTICLE Timing and formation of porphyry Cu–Mo mineralization in the Chuquicamata district, northern Chile: new constraints from the Toki cluster Fernando Barra & Hugo Alcota & Sergio Rivera & Victor Valencia & Francisco Munizaga & Victor Maksaev Received: 16 October 2012 ...

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Chuquicamata

20201028g . History of Chuquicamata, Chile

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World's largest open-pit copper mine gets new life in Chile …

Chuquicamata produced 443,000 tons of copper last year, but experts say that by 2019 it will be unprofitable. So state-owned mining company Codelco is trying to head off …

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Is Chuquicamata still closed?

No, closed, maybe from October a Heritage Corporation will run visits to the old town, see FB Chuquicamata Patrimonial

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Relationship Between Hydrothermal Alteration Index and …

bs_bs_banner doi: 10.1111/rge.12128 Resource Geology Vol. 67, No. 2: 158–173 Original Article Relationship Between Hydrothermal Alteration Index and Geological Attributes at Chuquicamata Cu–Mo Porphyry Deposit, Chile Héctor VÉLIZ, Eduardo CAMPOS, Andrew MENZIES and Ljubitza VALDIVIA 1 Universidad ólica del Norte, Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, …

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After 103 years, Chile's Codelco blasts at Chuquicamata pit …

Chuquicamata, the company's second largest copper operation by size, is expected to transition to underground block cave mining by mid-2019.

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Deposit Portal

The main Chuquicamata and associated Radomiro Tomic and Mina Ministro Hales (previously MM or Mina Mansa) porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits and the Mina Sur (Exotica) exotic copper orebody are located in northern Chile, some 240 km north-east of Antofagasta and 1690 km north of Santiago. ... Porter GeoConsultancy,, 2013 ...

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Codelco shuts Chuquicamata smelter and refinery

Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, has closed its Chuquicamata smelter and refinery to prevent a further spread of covid-19 among its staff, following the death of a third...

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Landsat Image Gallery

The Chuquicamata mine in northern Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the deepest open-pit mines in the world, second only to Bingham Canyon in Utah. The extraction of huge stores of copper has hollowed out the landscape; the largest pit at the site reaches a depth of approximately 1,000 meters (3,300 feet). Evidence of mining here dates as far back as the sixth century C.E., but …

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(PDF) EL CAMPAMENTO MINERO …

This site is the first of its kind in the Chuquicamata-Tomic area, and was occupied from close. ... 2013. download Download free PDF View PDF chevron_right. O sacerdócio de Cristo e a laicidade do sacerdócio conforme a Carta aos …

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Timing and formation of porphyry Cu Mo mineralization …

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Copper Mining at Chuquicamata

The Chuquicamata mine in northern Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the deepest open-pit mines in the world, second only to Bingham Canyon in Utah. The extraction of huge stores of copper has hollowed out the landscape; the largest pit at the site reaches a depth of approximately 1,000 meters (3,300 feet). Evidence of mining here dates as far back as the sixth century C.E., but …

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Codelco's Chuquicamata smelter set for three-month …

Codelco's Chuquicamata copper smelting line in northern Chile will be closed for at least three months next year for a major facility upgrade, sources tell Fastmarkets November 30, 2021 By Julian Luk. Base metals Copper Latin America From September to November 2022, the copper smelter will have its flash furnace – Chuquicamata's major ...

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CHUQUICAMATA, CORE OF A PLANETARY SCALE Cu …

although it is most famous for the Chuquicamata deposit. Chuquicamata is located 198 km northeast of the port of Antofagasta and 18 km due north of the city of Calama, in northern Chile, close to the gulch and hills of the same name. The district lies within an extensive metallogenic belt of large Eocene-Oligocene aged copper porphyries,

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Discovery and Geology of the Toki Porphyry Copper Deposit, Chuquicamata …

The Toki porphyry copper deposit is located in the Chuquicamata district, northern Chile, approximately 15 km southwest of the Chuquicamata mine. It is the newest giant copper deposit discovered in Chile and one of the most significant base metal exploration discoveries worldwide in the last 10 years.

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Chuquicamata | Article about Chuquicamata by The Free …

Chuquicamata, a hydrothermal deposit of porphyry copper, is confined to a large meridional intrusion (20 km long and 3 to 4 km wide) of porphyritic monzonite. The commercial ores connected with the thick (more than 300 m) zone of oxidation form a steep stockwork that is 0.8 km wide and about 3 km long.

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From Natives to Foreigners: Bolivian Migration, …

The characteristics of Bolivian migration to Chuquicamata thus impacted the labor relations and social organizations within the mine and its company town.52 Bolivian Social and Labor Life in Chuquicamata According to Bolivian political scientist Loreta Telleria, the indigenous people in Bolivia were considered a "war factor."53 The soldiers ...

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Moving a Town | EROS

Residents began moving in 2004, and by September 2007, Chuquicamata was officially abandoned. The Landsat images show the location of the former town and the piles of mine …

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Chuqui Underground: A Huge Transition

The $4.2 billion Chuquicamata Underground mine project advances. By Oscar Martínez, Latin American Editor. Located at 2,830 m above sea level in the middle of the Atacama desert, 240 km from the port city of Antofagasta, the Chuquicamata (pronounced choo-kee-ka-mah-ta) copper mine—one of the world's largest open-pit mines—is transitioning to an underground operation.

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Going underground: Codelco's $5bn plan to adapt the …

# Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 Abstract The recently discovered Toki cluster, which includes the Toki, Quetena, Genoveva, Miranda, and Opache porphyry Cu–Mo prospects, is …

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EL DISTRITO DE CHUQUICAMATA: UNA CONCENTRACION …

Chuquicamata is one of largest copper concentrations on Earth (> 100 Mt of Cu metal resources; e.g., Barra et al. 2013) and one of the largest districts within the Eocene-Oligocene metallogenetic ...

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Huge Open-Pit Copper Mine Goes Underground

Chuquicamata produced 443,000 tons of copper last year, but experts say that by 2019 it will be unprofitable. So state-owned mining company Codelco is trying to head off …

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El campamento minero Chuquicamata-2

El campamento minero Chuquicamata-2 y la explotacion cuprifera prehispanica en el Desierto de Atacama Lautaro Nunez A.,1 Carolina Aguero P.,1 Barbara Cases C.2 y Patricio de Souza H.2 RESUMEN Se presentan los primeros estudios del campamento mi nero Chu-2 con evidencias de explotacion cuprifera pre via al dominio inca, utilizado desde fines del ...

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Intimate Strangers: The Interlocking Histories of Butte, …

Museum and research center closed for renovations. For more info, call (406) 444-2694. ... The Interlocking Histories of Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile. By Janet Finn. Download and read the article in PDF format. TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION ON THE ARTICLE. The working class. Immigrants. Manipulation and exploitation.

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Chile's pollution grows in scramble to meet China's copper …

You can hear the wind howling in the ghost town next to the Chuquicamata mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. Some 2,800 metres above sea level, abandoned houses and shops display "no entry" signs. Placards on the road warn the path ahead is closed. This town used to be home to 25,000 people working in the world's largest open-pit copper mine.

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Major Mines & Projects | Radomiro Tomic Mine

The Chuquicamata district includes the Chuquicamata and Radomiro Tomic megadeposits, the exotic copper deposit Mina Sur, the newly developed Ministro Hales mine (formerly known as Mansa Mina) located 5.5 km south of Chuquicamata, and the deposits of the Toki cluster (Toki, Genoveva, Quetena, Miranda, and Opache) located about 15 km SSW of ...

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FIRST HALF 2024 RESULTS

Chuquicamata and Gabriela Mistral Divisions achieved higher ore grades, with Chuquicamata specifically increasing mineral ore processing, resulting in higher production for both operations. Molybdenum production fell by 5.1%, amounting to 7.5 ktons in the first six months of 2024, compared to 7.9 ktons during the same period in 2023.

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Moving a Town | EROS

The town of Chuquicamata was established as a mining camp when mining operations opened. After much mining and open pit expansion, the town ended up being too close to the mining operations. Dust from the mine and gases from the nearby smelting plant caused the mining company to relocate the entire town.

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