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Copper Mining in Chile

Copper Mining in Chile. By: Gabe, Jacy , Matthew and Xander. Copper Production. In the late 1800’s, copper exports constituted 33% of Chile’s revenue. Mines owned by British merchants and investors. Work force composed of Native workers who lived in terrible conditions around the mines.

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Copper Mining in Chile

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  1. Copper Mining in Chile By: Gabe, Jacy, Matthew and Xander

  2. Copper Production In the late 1800’s, copper exports constituted 33% of Chile’s revenue. Mines owned by British merchants and investors. Work force composed of Native workers who lived in terrible conditions around the mines.

  3. Export of Copper The Copper from Chile was exported to the United States, Britain and other industrialized nations. It was used to manufacture many goods that were being produced during the industrial revolution.

  4. Copper Economics Chile’s copper production and export peaked at near the endof the nineteenth century (1869). The easily accessible copper in the mines had been all but depleted, and other countries began to undercut Chile's price. This caused many mines to close and thousands of native workers to lose their jobs and their only means of self-support.

  5. Three Facts Composed a third of Chile’s export revenue in the 1800s. Exported to industrialized nations. Chile’s prices began to be undercut in the 1860’s, and by 1869 had been pushed out of being the world leaders in copper production.

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