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77 relations: Albert Burrage, Alberto Granado, Anaconda Copper, Antofagasta, Antofagasta Region, Bingham Canyon Mine, Biographical film, Bolivia, Brochantite, Calama, Chile, Caliche, Cenozoic, Chañarcillo, Chalcocite, Che Guevara, Chile, Chilean Civil War of 1891, Chilean nationalization of copper, Chuquicamata, Codelco, Copper, Copper sulfide, Covellite, El Salvador mine, El Teniente, Electrowinning, Elias Anton Cappelen Smith, Eocene, Escondida, Fault (geology), Froth flotation, Geology of Chile, Great Depression, Guggenheim family, Haber process, Hydrothermal circulation, Hypogene, Leaching (metallurgy), Los Pelambres mine, Minera Escondida, Mineral resource classification, Mineralization (geology), Mining, Mir mine, Molybdenite, Molybdenum, Nationalization, Nitrate, Oligocene, Open-pit mining, ..., Ore, Ostwald process, Pedro de Valdivia, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Peru, Porphyry copper deposit, Potrerillos, Chile, Pyrite, Radomiro Tomic mine, Refining (metallurgy), Salvador Allende, Santiago, Silver, Smelting, Sodium nitrate, Strike and dip, Sulfide minerals, Supergene (geology), Tailings, The Motorcycle Diaries (book), The Motorcycle Diaries (film), Tocopilla, Utah, Vein (geology), War of the Pacific, World War I, 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Expand index (27 more) »
Albert Burrage
Albert Cameron Burrage "A.C. Burrage" (November 21, 1859 - June 29, 1931) was an industrialist, attorney, horticulturist and philanthropist.
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Alberto Granado
Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist.
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Anaconda Copper
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, part of the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, was an American mining company.
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Antofagasta
Antofagasta is a port city in northern Chile, about north of Santiago.
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Antofagasta Region
The Antofagasta Region (Región de Antofagasta.) is one of Chile's fifteen first-order administrative divisions.
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Bingham Canyon Mine
The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains.
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Biographical film
A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.
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Bolivia
Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
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Brochantite
Brochantite is a sulfate mineral, one of a number of cupric sulfates.
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Calama, Chile
Calama is a city and commune in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
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Caliche
Caliche is a sedimentary rock, a hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other materials—such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt.
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Cenozoic
The Cenozoic Era meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and, extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.
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Chañarcillo
Chañarcillo is a town and mine in the Atacama Desert of Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile, located near Vallenar and 75 kilometres from Copiapó.
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Chalcocite
Chalcocite, copper(I) sulfide (Cu2S), is an important copper ore mineral.
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Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967)The date of birth recorded on was June 14, 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted by Jon Lee Anderson), asserts that he was actually born on May 14 of that year.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Chilean Civil War of 1891
The Chilean Civil War of 1891, also known as Revolution of 1891 was an armed conflict between forces supporting Congress and forces supporting the President, José Manuel Balmaceda.
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Chilean nationalization of copper
The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, commonly described as the Chilenización del cobre or "Chileanization of copper," was the process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry.
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Chuquicamata
Chuquicamata, or "Chuqui" as it is more familiarly known, is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama at above sea level, northeast of Antofagasta and north of the capital, Santiago.
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Codelco
CODELCO (Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile or, in English, the National Copper Corporation of Chile) is a Chilean state owned copper mining company.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.
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Copper sulfide
Copper sulfides (British English spelling: copper sulphide) describe a family of chemical compounds and minerals with the formula CuxSy.
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Covellite
Covellite (also known as covelline) is a rare copper sulfide mineral with the formula CuS.
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El Salvador mine
El Salvador mine (The Savior) is a combined open pit and underground copper mine located in Chile and owned by the state owned copper mining company Codelco.
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El Teniente
El Teniente ("The Lieutenant") is an underground copper mine in the Chilean commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, near the town of Sewell, above mean sea level in the Andes.
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Electrowinning
Electrowinning, also called electroextraction, is the electrodeposition of metals from their ores that have been put in solution via a process commonly referred to as leaching.
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Elias Anton Cappelen Smith
Elias Anton Cappelen Smith (6 November 1873 – 25 June 1949) was a Norwegian American chemical engineer, civil engineer and metallurgist.
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Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
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Escondida
Escondida is a copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta Region, Chile.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Froth flotation
Froth flotation is a process for selectively separating hydrophobic materials from hydrophilic.
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Geology of Chile
The geology of Chile is a result of the Andean and preceding orogenies occurring on the western coast of South America, a convergent boundary of tectonic plates.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Guggenheim family
The Guggenheim family is an American family known for their involvement in the mining industry and later in philanthropy.
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Haber process
The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today.
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Hydrothermal circulation
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press. and θέρμη, heat). Hydrothermal circulation occurs most often in the vicinity of sources of heat within the Earth's crust.
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Hypogene
In ore deposit geology, hypogene processes occur deep below the earth's surface, and tend to form deposits of primary minerals, as opposed to supergene processes that occur at or near the surface, and tend to form secondary minerals.
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Leaching (metallurgy)
Leaching is a process where ore is soluble and impurities are insoluble, widely used extractive metallurgy technique which converts metals into soluble salts in aqueous media.
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Los Pelambres mine
The Los Pelambres mine is a large copper mine located in the north-central of Chile in Coquimbo Region.
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Minera Escondida
Minera Escondida (which means 'hidden' in Spanish) is a mining company that operates two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile.
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Mineral resource classification
Mineral resource classification is the classification of mineral resources based on an increasing level of geological knowledge and confidence.
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Mineralization (geology)
In geology, mineralization is the deposition of economically important metals in the formation of ore bodies or "lodes" by various process.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
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Mir mine
The Mir mine (Кимберлитовая алмазная трубка «Мир» Kimberlitovaya Almaznaya Trubka "Mir"; English: kimberlite diamond pipe "Peace"), also called the Mirny mine, is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Sakha Republic, in the Siberian region of eastern Russia.
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Molybdenite
Molybdenite is a mineral of molybdenum disulfide, MoS2.
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Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a chemical element with symbol Mo and atomic number 42.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Nitrate
Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula and a molecular mass of 62.0049 u.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
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Open-pit mining
Open-pit, open-cast or open cut mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.
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Ore
An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.
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Ostwald process
The Ostwald process is a chemical process for making nitric acid (HNO3).
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Pedro de Valdivia
Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva (April 17, 1497 – December 25, 1553) was a Spanish missionary and the first Cardinal of Chile.
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Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Perth Amboy is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
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Peru
Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.
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Porphyry copper deposit
Porphyry copper deposits are copper orebodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers below the deposit itself.
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Potrerillos, Chile
Potrerillos is a ghost town in the interior of Atacama Region, Chile.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).
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Radomiro Tomic mine
The Radomiro Tomic mine is open pit mine that extracts oxide minerals at above sea level in the Andes mountains near to Chuquicamata mine and Calama in northern Chile's Antofagasta Region.
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Refining (metallurgy)
In metallurgy, refining consists of purifying an impure metal.
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Salvador Allende
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens (26 June 1908 – 11 September 1973) was a Chilean physician and politician, known as the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
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Santiago
Santiago, also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.
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Smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.
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Sodium nitrate
Sodium nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula NaNO3.
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Strike and dip
Strike and dip refer to the orientation or attitude of a geologic feature.
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Sulfide minerals
The sulfide minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfide (S2−) as the major anion.
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Supergene (geology)
In ore deposit geology, supergene processes or enrichment are those that occur relatively near the surface as opposed to deep hypogene processes.
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Tailings
Tailings, also called mine dumps, culm dumps, slimes, tails, refuse, leach residue or slickens, terra-cone (terrikon), are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore.
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The Motorcycle Diaries (book)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist.
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The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla commander and revolutionary Che Guevara.
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Tocopilla
Tocopilla is a city and commune in the Antofagasta Region, in the north of Chile.
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Utah
Utah is a state in the western United States.
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Vein (geology)
In geology, a vein is a distinct sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
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War of the Pacific
The War of the Pacific (Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Salpeter War (Guerra del Salitre) and by multiple other names (see the etymology section below) was a war between Chile on one side and a Bolivian-Peruvian alliance on the other.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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1973 Chilean coup d'état
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed moment in both the history of Chile and the Cold War.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuquicamata
