[:ja]アレックス・ゲルスト宇宙飛行士がISSから撮影したチリのチュキカマタ銅山です。
チュキカマタ銅山は、南米チリ北部、海抜3,180mの高地にある世界最大の露天掘りの銅山で、1969年に国有化されチリ銅公社が採掘を行っています。鉱床は長さ南北約3.2km、幅約1kmです。ちなみに、太平洋沿いのアントファガスタは銅鉱の積出港になっています。鉱山関係者の多くは、チュキカマタ村あるいは、カラマなどに居住しています。
地上の様子はこちらです。
参考文献： Alex Gerst’s Tweet
地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.752: Chuquicamata Copper Mine🇨🇱
Astronaut Alex Gerst captured from ISS Chuquicamata Copper Mine.
Chuquicamata is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama at 2,850m above sea level. Flotation and smelting facilities were installed in 1952, and expansion of the refining facilities in 1968 made 500,000 ton annual copper production possible in the late 1970s. Its depth of 850m makes it the second deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, US.).
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Alex Gerst’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.752: Chuquicamata Copper Mine🇨🇱
Astronaut Alex Gerst captured from ISS Chuquicamata Copper Mine.
Chuquicamata is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama at 2,850m above sea level. Flotation and smelting facilities were installed in 1952, and expansion of the refining facilities in 1968 made 500,000 ton annual copper production possible in the late 1970s. Its depth of 850m makes it the second deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, US.).
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Alex Gerst’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery: LiVEARTH[:]