But the open pit has run its course at Chuquicamata — the storied mine that awoke the political awareness of a young Ernesto "Che" Guevara in the 1950s, inspired Marxist President Salvador ...

In this Sept. 25, 2012 photo, a drilled tunnel crosses under the Chuquicamata copper mine in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. Experts say that by 2019 the Chuquicamata copper mine will be ...

The open pit will be shut at the end of 2020. Workers won’t go without a fight. In July, about 3,200 Chuquicamata machine operators and maintenance workers staged a 14-day strike.

A melting glacier, a gigantic tree and an abandoned mining town are among the winning images of the Earth Photo 2025 competition.

At more than 1,100 metres deep, Chuquicamata is still the world’s largest open-pit copper mine. (Image courtesy of Codelco.) Chile’s Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, has ...

Workers at Codelco's Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile, the state miner's second largest by output, are threatening to walk off the job soon to protest plans to transform the century-old open pit ...

The Chilean state-owned miner already spent $5.7 billion to convert the Chuquicamata open pit into an underground mine and was in the process of spending $1.3 billion in related infrastructure ...

Just as labor tensions ease at BHP Billiton Ltd.’s giant Escondida mine, the copper industry has another iconic mine to worry about.

Labor unions at Chile's Chuquicamata copper mine voted on Saturday to reject the latest contract offer of government-controlled mining company Codelco, and to continue the week-long strike at the ...

After a century of exploitation, Chuquicamata has become too big, too deep and too old to continue digging in the open-pit method. CHUQUICAMATA, Chile (AP) — From above, it looks like a colossal ...

CHUQUICAMATA, Chile (AP) ... Inside the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, dump trucks as big as two-story houses work around the clock to haul hundreds of tons of rock ...

World's largest open-pit copper mine gets new life in Chile by going down under In this Sept. 25, 2012 photo, a drilled tunnel crosses under the Chuquicamata copper mine in the Atacama desert in ...