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A mini-solar farm is floating in a dam of liquid copper waste

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SOLAR POWER
Chile has found another use for dams that hold the liquid waste from massive copper-mining operations: power generation. Calling it the first project of its kind in the world, Anglo American has installed 256 photovoltaic panels at the tailings dam for its Los Bronces complex in Chile.
 
 
 
 
 

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