History of Chilean Mining Mural

I. Historical Section (12.30 MT x 3.15 MT):

 

From top to bottom the mural section illustrates more than 4.000 years of mining history in the Andean world, a distribution of 3 vertical panels (2.05 MT x 1.05 MT) in 6 rows divided into 6 sections as follows:

 

i. Pre Colombian Period and the Bronze Age.

ii. Spanish conquest and the introduction of the Iron Age.

iii. Colonial Period and the independence of Chile.

iv. Industrial Revolution and the industrialization of mining industry.

v. The emergence of large scale mining.

vi.Development of mineral sciences.

 

II. Mining Process Section (8.20 MT x 4.20 MT):

 

From top to bottom the mural section illustrates mining process where “El Teniente” copper mine near Rancagua, Chile was used as a model of the largest underground mine in the world, a distribution of 4 vertical panels (2.05 MT x 1.05 MT) in 4 rows divided into 4 sections as follows:

 

i. Sewell mining town and productive section.

ii. Primary and secondary crushing plants.

iii. Metallurgical process and extraction plants.

iv. Smelting plant and final products.

 

 

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