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Sewell

Ghost town, Chile.

About Sewell

Company town in Chile. Mining town for El Teniente, listed as a World Heritage Site in 2006.1,2

Where next

Mines

Worked atEl TenienteEl Teniente lies about 7 km away.1

Places

ExamplesLotaAnother ghost town in Chile: Sewell.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q588417 (Sewell)
  2. Sewell Mining Town UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  3. Wikidata item Q16911 (Lota)

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; Haul trucks by Lechhabmed, CC BY-SA 4.0; Drilling and blasting by Siim Roov, CC BY-SA 4.0.