Escondida

Escondida is a large open-pit copper mine at 3,100 m elevation in the in , . It has for decades been one of world's most productive copper mines and is the mine that leads in copper and gold production in Chile.
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  • Type: Industry
  • Description: copper mine in Chile
  • Also known as: “Escondida Mine” and “エスコンディーダ”

Escondida

Latitude
-24.3322° or 24° 19′ 56″ south
Longitude
-69.07096° or 69° 4′ 15″ west
Operator
BHP
Open location code
577GMW9H+4J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 144096754
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Wiki­data ID
Q14995147
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Escondida” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Escondida”
  • Chinese: “埃斯孔迪达铜矿”
  • Chinese: “埃斯康迪達”
  • Esperanto: “Escondida”
  • French: “Escondida”
  • French: “Mine d’Escondida”
  • Galician: “Escondida”
  • Hebrew: “אסקונדידה”
  • Japanese: “ミネラ・エスコンディーダ”
  • Korean: “에스콘디다”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Escondida”
  • Norwegian: “Escondida”
  • Portuguese: “Mina Escondida”
  • Russian: “Эскондида”
  • Spanish: “La Escondida”
  • Spanish: “Mina La Escondida”
  • Ukrainian: “Ескондида”
  • Ukrainian: “Рудник ‘Ескондида’”

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