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Miner Claudio Yanez applauds as he is carried away on a stretcher after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months in 2010 near Copiapo, Chile.
Chuquicamata ( choo-kee-kÉ- MAH -tÉ ), or  Chuqui  as it is more familiarly known, is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world, located in the north of Chile , just outside Calama at 2,850 m (9,350 ft) above sea level, 215 km (134 mi) northeast of Antofagasta and 1,240 km (770 mi) north of the capital, Santiago .