00:00High up in the mountains, in between Chile and Argentina, lies an area of the Atacama Desert
00:05with amazing numbers of mineral deposits.
00:08There are all kinds, copper, gold, silver.
00:11In particular, one called Filo del Sol has just been evaluated to be about five times as large as was
00:18initially believed.
00:19So, the result is that there are in fact about $250 billion worth of copper waiting to be mined
00:26from this very difficult location.
00:29American companies that are mining the site intend to go in with environmentally friendly techniques
00:34to extract all of this ore in the next few years.
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