"Chile is the Saudi Arabia of copper. Its economy depends entirely on a state-owned copper company, just as the Saudi Arabian economy depends on a state-owned oil company."
>>217639970Weird cope for the fact that Chile is more developed, less violent, and more appealing than Brazil.
>>217639970Copper is bretty good. Sweden used to be a copper-state basically providing all of europes copper. Even experimented with copper money to be independent of silver/gold, but it didn't work out.
>>217640195Purely socioeconomic factors.
I live near the biggest open pit mine on the planet, and it mines copper. You can look down on it from a nearby mountain and still not see the bottom.
>>217640574That looks so fucking sick. I love the contrast of the lush nature and artificial mountain hills
>>217639970before, not nowcopper now only accounted for 11% of the gross domestic product.This is how Führer Kast summarized it: “In 2005, Chile produced 5 million tons, 38% of the world’s copper, and it was estimated that by 2025 it would reach 8 million tons. It remains at 5 million tons and now represents 24% of the world’s copper; this is something that must be corrected.”
>>217639970ok
>>217639970Who even needs copper? This ain't no bronze age senpai
>>217642262its the best electric/thermal conductorneed it to make the best wires and heatsinks
Wasn't it saltpetre in the past, but then some kraut figured out how to synthesize it and buttraped their economy?
fuck everything you bluds are waffling about, going to need a big fat SAUCE on that ASS right about NOW
>>217639970When the braps come out sizzlin
>>217640612>lushlolis denmark's nature that grim for you to say that ?
In 2022, we exported US$8.5 billion worth of lithium.Investment in hydrogen in Chile is five times greater than investment in hydrocarbons in Argentina.
>>217639970not so fast chilel
>>217640612There are records from travelers that Falun used to look like that except when you approached the town there wouldnt be any vegetation at all for like a 10km radius and everything was basically rust red