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It is in the Atacama desert. For a while it was almost exclusively mined there until some scientist or someone found other places to mine it in South America

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Sodium nitrate was once mined in the Atacama Desert before it could be produced much more cheaply artificially. It was the cause of wars between Chile, Bolivia and Peru.

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