Is it legal to collect at Machali: Sewell mining ghost town (El Teniente)?

Restricted. UNESCO World Heritage company town inside Codelco property: entry only with authorized operators from Rancagua or Santiago, strictly eyes-only, removing any artifact from the site is prohibited

What can you find at Machali: Sewell mining ghost town (El Teniente)?

eyes-only: American-era timber camp architecture, the great central staircase, mining museum, period machinery and bottle-era refuse in situ

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Andes, O'Higgins Region

Machali

Sewell mining ghost town (El Teniente)

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Wreck timber

Old bottles

Nails and fittings

Also reported: the great central staircase, mining museum.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Braden Copper Company town of 16,000 stacked on an Andean slope serving the El Teniente mine, abandoned to the weather after 1971 nationalization, UNESCO listed 2006

Wikipedia confirms UNESCO 2006 listing, the 50 restored buildings and the tour-operator-only access regime