Reply #80: Thanks for the link! Don't know any freepers; but would this "myth" pass muster as "newer"? --->

[Petrushka]

Petrushka (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-07-10 06:12 AM

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75. Here's a picture of Codelco's Cuquicamata open-pit copper mine . . .

Edited on Wed Apr-07-10 06:21 AM by Petrushka

. . . a picture for those who aren't interested in booking a tour to visit what's supposedly
the world's largest copper mine, the world's largest copper mine where tourists are overwhelmed
by everything, everything's so HUGE: the pit (one of the most amazing holes in the world), the
trucks, the factories and (mustn't forget!) the slag heaps, slag heaps that prove more important
than the people who receive 24-hour notice to get out of town because their homes must, in the
interests of efficiency, be buried under all that slag:






Reminds me of those mountaintop removal minesites in downstate West Virginia. Maybe, by nationalizing
the coal mines, West Virginians would someday be able to brag about our overwhelming slag heaps
instead of our beautiful hills and mountains!



Here's a link to one tourist's feeling about that copper mine in Chile:

http://realtravel.com/e-146398-chuquicamata_entry-feeli ...