Nueva Victoria

Chile · Open pit

Opened: 1990
Region: Tarapacá Region
Status: Active
Country: Chile
Type: Open pit
Latitude: -20.72
Longitude: -69.63

Notes

Iodine leached from the nitrate caliche of the Atacama — the same ore that made Chile rich before Haber–Bosch — supplying about half the world's iodine.

Commodities

Iodine

Referenced by

element

Iodine

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