Complete with goggles, breathing mask and hard hat, I peer cautiously over the edge of the world’s biggest copper mine. BHP’s Escondida project is 3000 metres high up in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, close to the Andes mountains and 1200 kilometres from Santiago.
It’s a compelling example of the close connections between Australian resources companies and the mining-based economy of this spectacular country stretching out along South America’s western coast.
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