Last week we showed you where the wettest mines in the world are located. Topping that list is the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea where an average of 6,636 millimetres of rain falls each year. This week we’re looking at the driest mines in some of the most arid regions of the world. Nearly half the mines on this list get no precipitation at all.
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Mantos De La Luna
Average annual precipitation: 0 mm
Location: Chile
Owner: Minera Mantos de la Luna
Type: Open-pit copper mine
One of the driest mines in the world | Compañia Mantos de la Luna
Nueva Victoria
Average annual precipitation: 0 mm
Location: Chile
Owner: SQM Potasio
Type: Open-pit iodine, salt mine
Abu Tartur
Average annual precipitation: 0 mm
Location: Egypt
Owner: Misr
Type: Underground phosphate rock, phosphate mine
East Sabaiya
Average annual precipitation: 0 mm
Location: Egypt
Owner: Elnasr Mining
Type: Open-pit phosphate rock mine
Michilla
Average annual precipitation: 1 mm
Location: Chile
Owner: Minera Michilla
Type: Open-pit/underground copper mine
West Sabaiya
Average annual precipitation: 1 mm
Location: Egypt
Owner: Elnasr Mining
Type: Open-pit phosphate rock mine
Aswan
Average annual precipitation: 1 mm
Location: Egypt
Owner: El Wataneya For Mining & Quarries Co.
Type: Open-pit phosphate rock mine
Red Sea
Average annual precipitation: 2 mm
Location: Egypt
Owner: Elnasr Mining
Type: Open-pit phosphate rock mine
La Negra – Scl
Average annual precipitation: 3 mm
Location: Chile
Owner: Rockwood Litio
Type: Underground lithium mine
El Gedida
Average annual precipitation: 3 mm
Location: Egypt
Owner: Egyptian Iron and Steel
Type: Open-pit iron ore mine
3 Comments
scott dunbar
If the average precipitation is zero, there must be some “negative precipitation” or evaporation. Is this what is meant?
Carlos A. Espinoza
A clarification. The La Negra Scl site it is not a lithium UG mine. The processing plant is located near Antofagasta in a place named La Negra where a lithium brine is processed to produce lithium carbonate. The brine is transported from the Salar de Atacama where the extraction facilities are located (about 250 km away). As of today, all facilities belongs to Albemarle (USA).
Vancoucer
How about the Tasiast gold mine is an open pit gold mine in
Mauritania?