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Show f0isY of im moow' - j i " - - ' - . v - ! ' " : - - - -i O Here ore first pictures pic-tures of Chile's "Volley of the Moon" amazing mineral frontier containing contain-ing the world's richest reserves of copper, iron, sulphate, nitrate and other treasures. The enormous enor-mous potential of this area will open new opportunities oppor-tunities under President Truman's "Point Four" program. Copper is Chile's number one business, busi-ness, a 100-million-dol-lar-a-year industry. Here (above) is a general view of the Chuquicamata copper mine, containing the world's largest known deposit of copper ore. A worker (left) directs the head of a churn drill into the shaft to continue drilling for blasting holes. mm I At the bottom of the nine, 750 feet down, this i huge electrically operated shoel (right) loads tons of ore at one scoop into the ore cars on a higher bench level. Note size of man in teground for comparison. Huge shovels (below) move into a blasted area and begin be-gin to load the copper ore tors. Chile gets 70 per cent of its U.S. dollar interne in-terne from the copper industry. 1 , : I ill 1 -, ..... . ' -' - -.r A Jlj 'r: 4 - " 111 he ' - ' H P V V " Q Three-churn drills (left) make blasting holes to bring down the copper ore. Portable rail tracks are held for ore car loading. load-ing. In 35 years of working work-ing this mine, an entire mountain was cut away, and a hole Vi miles long by Vz mile wide by 750 feet deep is the result. It's an open pit copper mine, and over 80 miles of railroad track run along its terraces to the bottom of the pit. About 18,000 men were used to cut down the mountain, and, at peak production, 7,500 workers are now employed. From 550 million mil-lion tons of earth removed, re-moved, copper ore has averaged 1.86 per cent. Exploration has covered less than 3 per cent of the area where the "Valley "Val-ley of the Moon" is locatedand lo-catedand the world of industry awaits w h a t further exploration will eveal. |