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Mining Technology - Boliden Copper Mine - Lomas Bayas - Chile |
 | | The Lomas Bayas copper mine is in the Atacama Desert of north Chile in the San Cristobal mountains. |
| | The mine is at an elevation of 1,500m and lies approximately 110km northeast of the coastal port of Antofagasta. |
| | The Lomas Bayas orebody is hosted by upper cretaceous volcanic-arc rocks and associated back-arc sediments, which are intruded by an upper cretaceous-paleocene composite granodiorite batholith. |
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