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Tarapaca, Tarapacá
Iquique / Atacama nitrate fields (caliche)
Mineral locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: halite, historic saltpeter.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Quaternary caliche
Atacama caliche deposits yielded the world's sodium nitrate
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