Escondida
Escondida is a large open-pit copper mine at 3,100 m elevation in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta Region, Chile. 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.
Seth Ilys, Public domain.- Industry
- …is also known as “Escondida Mine”
- …is operated by BHP
- Description: copper mine in Chile
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Latitude
-24.3322° or 24° 19′ 56″ south
Longitude
-69.07096° or 69° 4′ 15″ west
Open location code
577GMW9H+4J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse = industrial
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Escondida” goes by many names.
EscondidaCatalan
埃斯孔迪达铜矿Chinese
埃斯康迪達Chinese
EscondidaEsperanto
EscondidaGalician
אסקונדידהHebrew
エスコンディーダJapanese
ミネラ・エスコンディーダJapanese
에스콘디다Korean
EscondidaNorwegian
EscondidaNorwegian Bokmål
ЭскондидаRussian
ЕскондидаUkrainian
Рудник ‘Ескондида’Ukrainian
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