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What was the Atacama Desert famous for?

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The Atacama has always been famous for being the driest desert on earth. It use to be famous for its nitrate mining that provided raw materials for the fertilizer, explosive and chemical industries. Today, that nitrate mining has been replaced by copper mining.

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