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 ...

Chuquicamata Subterranea is an ambitious project to extend the open-pit copper mine's lifespan by converting it into an underground operation. The project has faced years of significant delays and ...

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 ...

The winning Earth Photo 2025 went to Lorenzo Poli, for 'Autophagy': which shows a stark black-and-white photograph taken at ...

Chuquicamata, which is located in northern Chile, produced 268,348 metric tons of copper in 2022. It is moving from open-pit mining to underground mining, ...

Chuquicamata Subterranea is an ambitious project to ex tend the open-pit copper mine's lifespan by converting it into an underground operation. The project has faced years of significant delays ...

The Chuquicamata open pit mine (Chile) exploits one of the largest porphyry copper deposits in the world: it is 4.3 km long, 3 km wide and up to 0.9 km depth.

Chuquicamata, which is located in northern Chile, produced 268,348 metric tons of copper in 2022. It is moving from open-pit mining to underground mining, ...

Open-pit mining is a type of surface mining used to extract coal, gold, and other minerals. It creates immense water and air pollution, disfigures landscapes, and destroys habitats.

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 ...