Chuquicamata The Largest Open Pit Copper Mine In The World ( Video )

The Chuquicamata mine is The largest open pit in the world with mining production Copper, gold an silver, and copper as the main product. The mining operations carried out by Coldeco at once owner of Chuquicamata mine in Chile and  Open pit mining in this Chuquicamata  is estimated to have a length of approximately 4.3 km , with  3km wide, with a depth of about 850m and Chuquicamata is also the largest open pit copper mine in the world

Chuquicamata (choo-kee-kə-MAH-tə), or as it is more familiarly known with "Chuqui" , located 16 km from Calama at 2,850 meters above sea level, has been operating since 1910.

In 2014 the Chuquicamata mine has produced copper as the main product of about 340.4kt of fine copper in cathode and copper concentrate,  production of gold produced from the mine is reached 757 t gold and silver 186.9 t.

New Top 5 Largest Open Pit Gold Mines In The World

Gold is a popular metal in the world because the characteristics, properties and composition. This metal has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since long before the beginning of recorded history. The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.

Gold Ore occurs often in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum) and also naturally alloyed with copper and palladium. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides).In 2014 a total of 183,600 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history. This is equivalent to 9513 m3 of gold.

Many mining companies have exploited gold deposits to make the biggest gold mines in the world,  extracting gold ore requires large facilities. Open-pit mining, open-cut mining or opencast mining is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow. The result of using this technique is a huge visible scar on the earth surface

Here Is A New List Of The Top 5 The Largest Open Pit Gold Mines In The World