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Iquique

Port, Chile.

About Iquique

Port city in Chile.1

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Mines

Worked atHumberstone and Santa Laura saltpetre worksHumberstone and Santa Laura saltpetre works lies about 37 km away.1

Events

Led toSanta Maria School massacre, IquiqueIquique is part of this story: Santa Maria School massacre, Iquique.1

Trade routes

Shipped throughChilean nitrate from Iquique to EuropeIquique was an end of the chilean nitrate from iquique to europe route.2

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q14440 (Iquique)
  2. Gale H.S., Nitrates (chapter in Bulletin 666, Our Mineral Supplies) US Geological Survey

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.