この場所が何であるか
Escondida sits 3,100 m up in the driest desert on Earth and pumps desalinated seawater 180 km uphill to run its concentrators. It is the single clearest example of what modern copper costs: enormous scale, falling grade, and infrastructure that dwarfs the mine itself.
産出物
Copper
The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting…
Gold
The metal that does not tarnish, does not corrode and never runs out once mined — which is why almost all of it ever…
Molybdenum
A silvery metal added to steel so it keeps its strength at high temperature and under pressure.
Silver
The best electrical conductor there is, and the metal that has been used as money for longer than almost anything…
「副産物」とは、意図して探したわけではなく、たまたま同じ岩石中に含まれていたために回収される金属のことだ。したがってその供給量は、当該金属自身の需給ではなく、主要金属の経済性に左右される。
所有者
事業者の公表情報に基づく。大規模鉱山の所有権は変動するため、利用前に最新の企業開示資料で確認すること。
