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	Chuquicamata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chuquicamata, or "Chuqui," as it is commonly called, is currently the largest open pit copper mine in the world.
		Chuquicamata is located 15 km north of the city of Calama in the region of Antofagasta.
		In 2003 encroachment by the growing mine and increased enforcement of pollution regulations forced the dismantling of the city of Chuquicamata — founded as a mining camp — workers and inhabitants were then relocated to the nearby city of Calama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chuquicamata,_Chile (343 words)

	Chile: Environmental Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chile is the world's largest producer of copper, and industrial emissions in Santiago primarily arise from the mining sector and smelter operations.
		Chile has signed and ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a non-Annex I country, and is therefore not obligated to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases.
		Chile also is a signatory to the more recent Kyoto Protocol and is party to several other international environmental treaties, such as the Montreal Protocol and the Convention limiting the movement of hazardous wastes.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/chilenv.html (1451 words)

	Show Mines of Chile: Chuquicamata Copper Mine
		Chuquicamata is an opencast copper mine, where a relatively poor copper ore is mined in impressive huge amounts.
		The Chuquicamata mine produces sulfidic ores, whilst the nearby Chuqui Sur mine, formerly known as Exótica, primarily produces oxide ores.
		The name Chuquicamata is a word from the Aymara language and refers to the chuco or chuqui Native American Indian group.
	www.showcaves.com /english/misc/mines/Chuquicamata.html (504 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Copper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Examples include: Chuquicamata in Chile and El Chino mine in New Mexico.
		The Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries (CIPEC), defunct since 1992, once tried to play a similar role for copper as OPEC does for oil, but never achieved the same influence, not least because the second-largest producer, the United States, was never a member.
		Formed in 1967, its principal members were Chile, Peru, Zaire, and Zambia.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Copper (1473 words)

	Chile
		Chile is now the owner of its mines, and the workers must know that copper is the wage of Chile, its principal wealth.
		Chuquicamata, the world’s largest and richest open-pit copper mine, is an enclave of alien life 10.000 feet high in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, an industrial marvel and an incongruously situated monument of its time.
		It also became clear that, while Chile had lived off the copper industry in world trade for most of this century, relatively few Chileans were sufficiently experienced in the mining and processing of copper to run the industry, and even fewer had any experience in the intricacies of the overseas trade.
	www.normangall.com /chile_art2.htm (6159 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Chuquicamata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		12,722), Antofagasta region, N Chile, on the western slopes of the Andes.
		At an elevation of 10,435 ft (3,181 m), Chuquicamata has one of the world's largest copper mines.
		Smelting and flotation plants began operations in 1951; an expansion of refining plants in 1970 substantially increased copper output.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/chuquica.asp (269 words)

	Chile Copper Exports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chile's eagerness to meet investors' and nations' needs for copper has created several environmental problems in the area.
		By 1835, Chile was exporting 12,700 tons of copper a year, much of it to the United States.
		Chile will remain a leader in the export of copper, but compliance with environmental regulations will be costly for COLDECO.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/copper.htm (1737 words)

	Forbes.com: FEATURE-Chile miners bid farewell to dusty, polluted home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CHUQUICAMATA, Chile (Reuters) - Living in the middle of one of the world's driest deserts between a mile-high pile of rubble and a smoke-spewing refinery is not everybody's idea of bliss.
		But the 2,500 residents of Chuquicamata, one of Chile's only remaining old-fashioned mining camps, are deeply attached to their home and sad they will soon have to leave it to make way for the mine's expansion plans.
		Chuquicamata, which means "the tip of the spear" in the language of pre-Colombian Indians who first discovered the deposit, is now the world's second-largest copper mine and is owned by Chile's government-owned Codelco.
	www.forbes.com /business/newswire/2004/01/20/rtr1217656.html (1033 words)

	Copper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main copper-ore producing countries are Chile, United States, Indonesia, Australia, Peru, Russia, Canada, China, Poland, Kazakhstan and Mexico.
		Most copper ore is mined or extracted as copper sulfides from large open pit mines in porphyry copper deposits that contain 0.4 to 1.0 percent copper.
		The average abundance of copper found within crustal rocks is approximately 68 ppm by mass, and 22 ppm by atoms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copper (2312 words)

	Other Stuff
		Chuquicamata, Codelco Chile, 1998: A study on the impact of variable bench height on minable reserves as part of a larger engineering feasibility study for the expansion of mining operations.
		Chuquicamata, Codelco Chile, 2000: An extensive review of the Chuquicamata long term ore reserve model for the purposes of improving local accuracy for long term mine planning and expansion studies.
		Chuquicamata, Codelco Chile, 1997: An extensive review of the transition zone - low grade sulfide ore reserve model for the purposes of resolving a major reconciliation problem between model predictions and production figures.
	www.isaaks.com /Resume.html (1190 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; April 25, 1994
		Chile has been working hard to fight drug trafficking, says Villalobos, who adds that new legislation is being considered in Congress to help in the fight against narcotics.
		Chile's new Minister of Agriculture Emiliano Ortega once again expressed his support of the more activist stance taken by Conaf, the state forest monitoring agency.
		Chile placed 34th in the overall ranking system, with an index score of 53.6, and is followed by Mexico (42nd) and Colombia (49th).
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h94/chip.19940425.html (1983 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Mining town moves to avoid pollution
		An entire town in Chile's Atacama desert is being relocated because of pollution from the biggest open-cast mine in the world.
		The adjacent town of Chuquicamata is now so polluted that it is unsafe for people to live there.
		So thousands of workers and their families will leave and since mining waste's expensive to transport, the town and its century of history will be buried under a giant slag heap.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/2399591.stm (602 words)

	Journal of Political Ecology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As Finn began to do documentary research on this history, she discovered that the story of Butte could not be told without exploring the 'sister city' of Chuquicamata, Chile.
		She then traveled to Chile to investigate the history of that mining town and embarked on a three-year journey, traveling back and forth between the two sites.
		The company also wanted to establish a distinction between Anaconda workers and other workers in Chile with the appearance that 'their' miners were a privileged group and that they were more rapidly advancing toward the goal of the American dream model.
	dizzy.library.arizona.edu /ej/jpe/volume_6/finnvol6.htm (1060 words)

	HCItasca: Mining Projects at Codelco
		HCItasca also conducted hydrogeologic investigations relative to draining an incipient slope failure at the Chuquicamata pit and predicting the dewatering requirements for future expansion of the pit.
		Specific tasks included development of a conceptual hydrogeologic model of the region surrounding the mine, design of deep piezometers, design of drainholes and piezometers to be constructed in a drainage gallery, design of aquifer tests, and presentation of a short course on mining hydrology to mine geotechnical personnel.
		The Chuquicamata pit will reach its final depth in the next ten to twenty years.
	www.winternet.com /~icg/mining__codelco.html (586 words)

	Chile Information Project -- "Santiago Times" -- Political, Environment, Human Rights, Economic News; March 24, 1997
		But critics counter that Chuquicamata, Chile's largest state- owned mine, is one of the obvious suspects as the source of the pollution.
		Chile's comptroller general rejected environmental regulations sent it by Chile's government last year, thus delaying the implementation of new regulations.
		Chile's Gross Domestic Product grew by 8.5 percent in 1995 and an estimated 6.4 percent in 1996, leading the field in both years, the study said.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/chip/h97/chip.19970324.html (3068 words)

	Surroundindgs of Calama Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Its name is translated as "land of Chuco Indians", referring to the natives who in former times lived in the area.
		Among its attractions is the San Francisco Church, one of the most beautiful churches in Chile, and declared a National Monument in 1951.
		The temple, built in 1675, shows sturdy walls and in its interior shelters a beautiful picture of Christ's passion, painted on both sides and a folding-armed crucifix, thus designed for transport during processions.
	www.enjoy-chile.org /calama-attractions-surroundings-chile.php (985 words)

	Los Andinos
		The mining camps of Potrerillos, El Salvador, Barquito and Chuquicamata, remotely located high in the Andes mountains, continue to hold a special place in the hearts of the people who lived and worked in them.
		Diverse people from all over Chile and around the world gathered to build these tremendous mining enterprises, in very challenging conditions.
		This website is a place to share a few memories of the friendships that began in these mining camps in northern Chile.
	www.losandinos.com (309 words)

	New technology tracks missing billions
		A fault cutting through the giant Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile suggests that part of the rich deposit may have been displaced millions of years ago by tectonic movement along the fault.
		A new dating method, uranium-helium thermochronology, has shed some light on this mystery, including the possibility that another copper deposit could be buried on the eastern side of the fault.
		The results of the Chuquicamata study were published recently in the scientific journal Economic Geology (volume 94, pages 937-948).
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-11/CA-Nttm-131199.php (357 words)

	The ABB Group: ABB wins contract enabling process change of copper refining in Chile
		The ABB contract is for four transformer-rectifiers units of 10 to 13 MVA rating at 43kA/205 to 260 VDC, a harmonic filter engineering study, spare parts and commissioning and start-up services.
		The supply of this equipment is the largest of its kind installed in the last five years in Chile.
		As well as transformer-rectifiers systems contract, ABB Chile has received an additional order of US$ 1,2 million for medium and low voltage drives equipment that includes the supply of third party pumps.
	www.abb.com /cawp/seitp202/F48D98AD91DBF1D0C1256D7F00449CB9.aspx (398 words)

	News from Falling Mountain Music
		Pam and Spencer at the Villarrica volcano, Chile
		Folk duo wild carrot devote much of their creative energy to teaching songwriting workshops in school programs throughout southwestern Ohio, but area schoolchildren had to make do without them as their talents were exported for 10 days this autumn to the South American country of Chile.
		This tour is the follow-up to their 2003 tour of Chile, also with the State Department.
	www.fallingmountain.com /news/chile.html (796 words)

	SNC-Lavalin - News Centre - Press Releases
		And Paul Wurth S.A. have been awarded a joint contract to modernize and automate Codelco's copper electro-refinery in Chuquicamata, Chile.
		The partners' contract is valued at US$12 million, and will include conversion from the existing traditional cathodes process to the Falconbridge permanent cathodes process, as well as automation of the electrode handling and tracking of production, permitting continuous fine-tuning of the refining parameters.
		The Paul Wurth Group is world-renowned for its expertise in conceiving, engineering and implementing advanced technologies and processes to the specific requirements of iron, steel and non-ferrous operators.
	www.snc-lavalin.com /en/8_0/8_2_1.aspx?id=80 (368 words)

	WJLA - Operations Delayed at Chile Copper Mine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Contract workers for Chile's state-owned copper corporation briefly delayed operations at the world's largest underground copper mine Thursday, demanding bonuses as world prices for copper reach record levels.Officials at El Teniente mine, 55 miles southwest of Santiago, said production was not affected.
		No protests were reported in other mines owned by Codelco in northern Chile, including Chuquicamata, the world's largest open pit mine.
		The contract companies employ some 28,000 workers, but an eventual strike would not involve all of them, as many are not unionized, and Codelco officials don't expect much of an impact on production if a strike does take place.
	www.wjla.com /headlines/1205/289738.html (402 words)

	APEC to forge mineral, metals marketer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CHUQUICAMATA, Chile -- A standing APEC body will promote mineral and metal trade worldwide, APEC ministers agreed Thursday.
		Participants in the meeting included host Chile, the world's biggest copper producer, and three major producers; China, Japan and the United States.
		APEC members produce 64 percent of the world's gold, 50 percent of its bauxite, 66 percent of its nickel, 82 percent of its copper and 75 of its zinc.
	money.inq7.net /breakingnews/view_breakingnews.php?yyyy=2004&mon=06&dd=18&file=6 (358 words)

	ImageSat International N.V.
		The Chuquicamata Copper Mine is located in Codelco, Chile in the Atacama Desert, 1,200 km north of Santiago.
		This open pit mine produces about 650,000 metric tons of copper annually and was the biggest pit in the world during the nineties, when its output was about 5% of global production.
		Every year, the mine also produces around 13,500 tons of molybdenum, a hard, silvery-white metallic element used to toughen alloy steels and soften tungsten alloy.
	www.imagesatintl.com /?catid={6E7BB792-0EA6-4AC6-9EAC-EDA52596580D}&details_type=1&itemid={7F124A22-56F4-4BB7-99D6-C530AEF434B3} (119 words)

	Contribution of Water, Bread, and Vegetables (Raw and Cooked) to Dietary Intake of Inorganic Arsenic in a Rural Village ...
		We are grateful for financial assistance provided by the Agricultural Program administered by the Regional Agricultural Ministerial Secretariat and for the support of the Copper Corporation of Chile (Chuquicamata Division), the University of Santiago de Chile, and the IATA (CSIC), Valencia, Spain.
		Total and inorganic As contents of cooked vegetables obtained from an arsenic endemic area of Chile were analyzed.
		The results show the contribution of food to inorganic As intake and the risk to which those ages 15 or younger are exposed.
	pubs.acs.org /cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jafcau/2004/52/i06/abs/jf035168t.html (294 words)

	Chuquicamata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chile: Land - Land A long narrow strip of land (no more than c.265 mi/430 km wide) between the Andes and the...
		CHILE: Development plans for proposed $3,000,000,000 copper mining expansion project, CORPORACION NACIONAL DEL COBRE DE CHILE (CODELCO)......
		CHILE: $434,000,000 MINING DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT PLANS STILL NEED TO BE APPROVED BY BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CORPORACION NACIONAL DEL......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0812181.html (218 words)

	Altoplano
		From San Pedro it is straightforward to get to the famous Salar de Uyuni in Boliviar, instead however I headed north via the massive copper mine at Chuquicamata to PN Lauca, Chile and the edge of the 4000m altoplano.
		A 94km ride to the 4600m geyser field of El Tatio is another popular excursion and tours aim to arrive at dawn as the freezing cold produces great clouds of steam from the 50 or so geysers.
		From Chile, the road rises to the 4200m altoplano where altitude sickness is a problem.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /southamerica/Altoplan.html (994 words)

	8. Chuquicamata Copper Mine, Antofagasta Province, Northern Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One such deposit is seen in the right portion of this photograph.
		Chuquicamata, the largest open-pit copper mine in the world, is the white and tan area (right center) just west of the volcanos in the lower (2850 meters), arid Atacama Desert.
		Copper from Chuquicamata is transported by rail southwest to the port city of Antofagasta.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /publications/slidesets/humanimprints/slide_8.html (218 words)

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