Experts in Chile on Tuesday were investigating the appearance of an enormous sinkhole, bigger than a tennis court, that has appeared near a copper mine in the Atacama desert.
Experts were dispatched to examine the hole, some 32 meters across and twice as deep, which appeared in an area about 800 kilometers north of Santiago over the weekend, the National Geology and Mining Service A 100-meter security perimeter has been erected around the hole in the Tierra Amarilla municipality, near the
Alcaparrosa mine operated by Canadian firm Lundin Mining.in a statement there had been"no impact to personnel, equipment or infrastructure," and the sinkhole has remained stable since its detection.As a preventive measure,"development work in an area of the Alcaparrosa underground mine has been temporarily suspended," the company
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