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Patricio Prieto. He is originally from Punta Arenas (Patagonia) and works at Chuquicamata since 1990. he lives with his wife and three kids in Calama. The rest of his family is till in Punta Arenas, Patricio has visited them for the last time in 2008. In 2005 they bought a house...Chuquicamata is one of the largest copper mines in the world. Mining started 96 years ago and the open mine has reached a depth nowadays of nearly one kilometer. Huge machinery extract 650,000 tons a day out of the mine, this includes all the waste as well. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR)