.. Or, at least, looks like it.
Here is the waste dumps "mountain" of the chuquicamata open pit copper mine. north of Chile. Its diameter is about 1600 meters!
... Would it be because the Santiago (name of the capital of the country) emblem is a scallop shell?
Cerro Aucanquilcha, Chile, is one of those places where hell sometimes releases its surplus building material through a volcano. So huge is that deposit of sulfur, that it was deemed worth to tap, even if the stuff has to be brought down from 6000m altitude with the highest arial ropeway to a sulfuric acid plant (deemed for copper processing at Chuquicamata, see mining branch). The workers drov...
This is the second biggest opensky mine in the world, this mine have been used for two thousand years ago by Romans, and nowadays it's used by the NASA because the terrain is such as Mars, the dam you can see at the north of the mine are contamined waters.
A dragline excavator at the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine near Hibbing,MN. This mine is the largest open pit iron mine in the world. The mine is approximately 3 miles long, 2 miles wide, and 535 feet deep.
This is one of the most importants copper mines in the world, representing the 14% of Codelco's total production, employing more than 1,400 workers, and located over the 3500 meters of altitude.
The National Stadium of Chile (Estado Nacional de Chile) is located in the Ņuņoa municipality of Santiago, Chile. Inaugurated on December 3, 1938 it is Chile's national stadium with a capacity of 66,650.
It was the site of the opening, quarterfinals, a semifinal, and final games of the 1962 World Cup. During the Chilean coup of 1973 it was used as a concentration camp holding 40,...
The Wieliczka Salt Mine, located in the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland, lays within Kraków metropolitan area. The mine had been in continuous operation, producing table salt since the 13th century until 2007 as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines (the oldest being in Bochnia, Poland, some 20 kilometers away from Wieliczka). The mine is a major tourist attraction, with about 1.2...
The Ekati open pit diamond mine in northern Canada. Zoom in to see the huge trucks and excavators. Visit http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/ekati/ for more information on this mine.
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