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Copiapo

Boom town, Chile, founded 1744.

About Copiapo

City in northern Chile.1

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Events

Led toCopiapo San Jose mine collapse and rescueCopiapo is part of this story: Copiapo San Jose mine collapse and rescue.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q3868 (Copiapo)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.