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The Atacama is rich in mineral resources, especially nitrates and copper.
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What desert is rich in copper?
The Atacama Desert in Chile is rich in copper deposits.
What dessert is rich in copper?
The Atacama Desert is rich in copper
What is one product mined in the Atacama desert?
Atacama is rich in nitrates and copper
What desert in South America has rich deposits of sodium nitrate?
The Atacama desert.
What desert is in Chile rich in nitrate and copper deposits?
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile has rich mineral deposits.
What is the Atacama Desert rich in?
It is rich in nitrates that are used to produce fertilizers and explosives. However, nitrate mining has pretty much ceased. Now it is copper that is the main resource of the Atacama Desert.
Which deserts are located in Chile?
The large desert in northern Chile is the Atacama Desert. The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert in the world.
Is San Pedro De Atacama in the Atacama desert?
Yes it is located in the Atacama Desert.
What is the climate of the Atacama Desert?
The Atacama Desert is a cool, exceedingly dry desert.
What its the desert in northern Chile?
The Atacama Desert is located in northern Chile, southern Peru and small parts of Bolivia and Argentina.
What kind of desert is the Atacama?
The Atacama is a cold coastal desert.
Why are the Atacama Desert's big in industries?
About the only industry active in the Atacama Desert is the mining industry as it is rich in some mineral resources, especially copper. Along the coast fishing is also a big industry.
