La Escondida copper mine
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La Escondida copper mine is the world’s largest copper-producing mine, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major contributor to global copper supply.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Escondida Norte pit | 1 |
| Escondida copper deposit | 1 |
| Escondida orebody | 1 |
| La Escondida copper mine canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
copper mine
ⓘ
open-pit mine ⓘ |
| commodity |
cathode copper
ⓘ
copper concentrate ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Chile ⓘ |
| discoveryYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| distanceFromCity | about 170 km southeast of Antofagasta ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 3100 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| employerInRegion | Antofagasta Region ⓘ |
| hasEconomicImpact | major source of export revenue for Chile ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalImpact | large-scale open-pit mining disturbance ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
concentrator plants
ⓘ
desalination plant ⓘ leach pads ⓘ tailings storage facility ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfWorkOrName | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Antofagasta Region
ⓘ
Atacama Desert ⓘ Escondida ⓘ
surface form:
Escondida district
|
| locatedNear | Antofagasta ⓘ |
| majorityOwner | BHP ⓘ |
| miningMethod | open-pit mining ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
La Escondida copper mine
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Escondida orebody
|
| nativeName | Minera Escondida ⓘ |
| operator | BHP ⓘ |
| oreType | porphyry copper deposit ⓘ |
| owner |
BHP
ⓘ
JECO ⓘ JECO ⓘ
surface form:
JECO 2
Rio Tinto ⓘ |
| partOf | global copper supply chain ⓘ |
| processingMethod |
concentrator
ⓘ
electrowinning ⓘ oxide leaching ⓘ solvent extraction ⓘ |
| product |
copper
ⓘ
gold ⓘ silver ⓘ |
| regulator | Government of Chile ⓘ |
| sector | mining industry ⓘ |
| shareholder |
JECO
ⓘ
JECO ⓘ
surface form:
JECO 2
Rio Tinto ⓘ |
| significance |
major contributor to global copper supply
ⓘ
world’s largest copper-producing mine ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 1990 ⓘ |
| usesWaterSource | desalinated seawater ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: La Escondida copper mine Description of subject: La Escondida copper mine is the world’s largest copper-producing mine, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert and a major contributor to global copper supply.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Escondida copper deposit
this entity surface form:
Escondida orebody