Aerial view of the Chuquicamata copper mine in Northern Chile. This is the largest open pit copper mine in the world by volume (at the time of sharing). At this location the copper and molybdenum is extracted from a porphyry deposit that was formed beneath a volcano in the Andean subduction zone. Description by Martyn Unsworth, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Although much o ...[Read More]
Imaggeo On Monday: Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile
Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile. Credit: Martyn Unsworth (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)