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Copper is the main resource mined in the Atacama Desert.
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What natural resource is found in the Atacama Desert?
Copper is the principal resource found in the Atacama Desert.
What is the main resource that comes from the Atacama Desert?
Nitrates for fertilizer used to be the major resource mined in the desert. Today copper is mined and the major resource of the area.
What are the natural resources in the Atacama Desert?
Nitrates, used in fertilizers and explosives, were the main resource of the Atacama until a few decades back when the mines were closed. Today copper is the main resource mined in the Atacama.
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.
What is the Atacama Desert used for?
Today the main product produced in the Atacama is copper.
What is mined from the great open pits located in the Atacama Desert?
Copper is the main mineral mined in the Atacama.
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.
Chile's copper deposits are located closest to which of the following areas?
the Atacama Desert - main concentration lies on the eastern margin of the Atacama Desert.Atacama Desert
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 kind of desert is the Atacama?
The Atacama is a cold coastal 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.
