Chuquicamata mine
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Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major source of global copper production.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chuquicamata mine canonical | 3 |
| Chuquicamata area | 2 |
| Calama mining district | 1 |
| Chuquicamata | 1 |
| Chuquicamata copper deposit | 1 |
| Chuquicamata copper mine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1609035 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Chuquicamata mine Context triple: [Calama, near, Chuquicamata mine]
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El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
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Tioga Mine
Tioga Mine was a historic silver mining operation in the Sierra Nevada of California that gave its name to nearby Tioga Pass.
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C.
Cerro Rico
Cerro Rico is a historically significant silver-rich mountain in Bolivia whose vast mineral wealth fueled the Spanish Empire during the colonial era.
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Potosí
Potosí is a historic Bolivian city famed for its once immensely productive silver mines at Cerro Rico, which made it one of the richest and largest cities in the world during the Spanish colonial era.
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E.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Chuquicamata mine Target entity description: Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major source of global copper production.
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A.
El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
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B.
Tioga Mine
Tioga Mine was a historic silver mining operation in the Sierra Nevada of California that gave its name to nearby Tioga Pass.
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C.
Cerro Rico
Cerro Rico is a historically significant silver-rich mountain in Bolivia whose vast mineral wealth fueled the Spanish Empire during the colonial era.
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D.
Potosí
Potosí is a historic Bolivian city famed for its once immensely productive silver mines at Cerro Rico, which made it one of the richest and largest cities in the world during the Spanish colonial era.
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E.
Panguna mine
Panguna mine is a large, now-closed open-cut copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea that was once among the world’s biggest and played a central role in the Bougainville conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
copper mine
ⓘ
mine ⓘ open-pit copper mine ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Chuquicamata mine
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Calama mining district
|
| commodity |
copper concentrate
ⓘ
refined copper ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Chile ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
important source of revenue for Chilean state
ⓘ
key contributor to Chilean copper exports ⓘ |
| environment | hyper-arid desert climate ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting |
Andean porphyry copper belt
ⓘ
surface form:
Andean porphyry copper system
|
| hasFacility |
concentrator plant
ⓘ
refinery ⓘ smelter ⓘ |
| hasType | surface mine ⓘ |
| hasWorkforce | thousands of workers ⓘ |
| industry | mining industry ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Andes
ⓘ
surface form:
Andes mountain region
Antofagasta Region ⓘ Atacama Desert ⓘ Atacama Desert ⓘ
surface form:
Atacama Plateau
El Loa Province ⓘ
surface form:
Province of El Loa
northern Chile ⓘ |
| materialExtracted |
copper ore
ⓘ
oxide ore ⓘ sulfide ore ⓘ |
| miningMethod | open-pit mining ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Chuquicamata mine
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Chuquicamata area
|
| near | Calama ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Codelco
ⓘ
surface form:
Codelco Norte division
|
| operator | Codelco ⓘ |
| oreType | porphyry copper deposit ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Codelco ⓘ |
| owner |
Codelco
ⓘ
surface form:
Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile
|
| partOf |
Andean porphyry copper belt
ⓘ
surface form:
Chilean copper belt
|
| product |
copper
ⓘ
gold ⓘ molybdenum ⓘ silver ⓘ |
| resource | large copper reserves ⓘ |
| sector | non-ferrous metal mining ⓘ |
| significance |
major source of global copper production
ⓘ
one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | one of Codelco’s flagship operations ⓘ |
| transitionedTo | underground mining operations ⓘ |
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Subject: Chuquicamata mine Description of subject: Chuquicamata mine is one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major source of global copper production.
Referenced by (9)
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