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Salar de Atacama: Lithium Brine Beneath the Salt Flat
How lithium is extracted from brine under Chile’s Salar de Atacama, who operates there, and why water is at the heart of…
Lithium and potassium · Antofagasta Region, Chile
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Escondida Mine: The Copper Giant of the Atacama
Escondida in Chile is the world’s largest copper mine by production. Who owns it, how it works, and how it gets water…
Copper · Antofagasta Region, Chile
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Deepest Mine in the World: Inside Mponeng’s 4-Kilometre Descent
Mponeng in South Africa is the deepest mine in the world, more than 4 km down. How miners handle rock heat, pressure…
Gold · Gauteng, South Africa