Mina de Chuquicamata, Calama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 110-112 PAN.JPG
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What this Commons file record states
- File title
- Mina de Chuquicamata, Calama, Chile, 2016-02-01, DD 110-112 PAN.JPG
- Artist
- Diego Delso
- Credit
- Own work
- Description
- Panoramic view of Chuquicamata , a state-owned copper mine located at 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level just outside Calama , north of Chile . It is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world. The huge hole was started in 1882 as a mine to extract gold and copper. It is 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) long, 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) wide and with a depth of 850 metres (2,790 ft) it is the second deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, USA). Note: to get a feeling of the scale spot out a haul truck, which is 9.5 metres (31 ft) long and 4.5 metres (15 ft) high.
- Capture date
- Date as the record states it
- 2016-02-01 19:37:44
- Width
- 9,471 px
- Height
- 4,720 px
- Megapixels
- 44.7
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Licence URL
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
- Collection
- Featured pictures of landscapes
- Commons file page
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mina_de_Chuquicamata,_Calama,_Chile,_2016-02-01,_DD_110-112_PAN.JPG
- File URL
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Mina_de_Chuquicamata%2C_Calama%2C_Chile%2C_2016-02-01%2C_DD_110-112_PAN.JPG
