Calama centers around one industry: Copper. Codelco owns the largest open copper mine in the entire world and it sits just a few miles from the place I call home. Codelco owns this town and most of Northern Chile. Today, we visited the mine and ghost town of Chuquicamata. In 2010, the ghost town and valley of the mine will disappear under rubble when Coldelco plans to join a salt mine to the increasing copper mine.
Photos of the mine (and a few of Trip - Susan just sent a few from Halloween!):
http://picasaweb.google.com/CatinSouthAmericaPart2/CopperMine#
Codelco website: [People] are permanently in contact with copper, at their homes and offices, in the streets, in their cars, and whenever they do something typical of modern life: turn on the lights, speak on the phone or drink tap water. And this contact just increases with the advent of new technologies.
1 comment:
Love the way that photo came out!
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