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The Giant Holes: Chuquicamata Copper Mine, Chile Chuquicamata in Chile is a mining giant that produces a total record of 29 million tonnes of copper. Although nearly 100 years of intensive exploitation, remains the largest resource of copper in the world, and this open crater is one of the world's largest size, reaching 4.3 km long, 3 km wide and over 850 m inside. is by excavated volume the biggest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile, just outside of Calama at 9,350 feet (2,850m) above sea level, 215 km northeast of Antofagasta and 1,240 km north of the capital, Santiago. The Giant Holes: Chuquicamata Copper Mine, Chile 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. The Giant Holes: Chuquicamata Copper Mine, Chile The mine is owned and operated by Codelco, a Chilean state enterprise, since the Chilean nationalization of copper in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its depth of 850 metres (2,790 ft) makes it the second deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, USA).