of a mine that has churned up a record total of 29 million tonnes of copper. Despite almost 100 years of intensive exploitation‚ it remains among the largest known copper resources‚ and its open pit is one of the biggest at a whopping great 4.3 km long‚ 3 km wide and over 850 m deep. Copper has been mined for centuries at Chuquicamata‚ as shown by the 1898 discovery of a mummy dated around 550 AD found trapped in an ancient mine shaft by a cave-in. A great influx of miners was sucked in by ‘Red
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------------------------------------------------- Geography of Pakistan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Geography of Pakistan | | Continent | Asia | Region | Southwest Asia | Coordinates | 30°00 ’N 70°00 ’E | Area | Ranked 36th 880‚940 km2 (340‚130 sq mi) 97.13% land 2.87 % water | Borders | Total: 6‚975 km (4‚334.1 mi) Afghanistan: 2‚643 km (1‚642.3 mi) China: 510 km (316.9 mi) India: 2‚910 km (1‚808.2 mi) Iran: 912 km (566.7 mi) | Highest point | K2 8‚616.3 m
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A Long Way From False Child soldiers often have a hard time returning to a normal life after war. Ishmael Beah‚ however‚ showed that he can do it and so can others. He lost his entire family in Sierra Leone’s civil war and the government recruited him as a soldier in his early teens and went on to write his memoir about it‚ A Long Way Gone. As hard as it was for him to go through and relive these memories to write his story‚ people still question the memoir’s validity. Despite what many articles
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L2 May 8‚ 2013 Physical Geography Agenda: • 1.Geological Structure and Relief • 2. Climate • 3. Rivers and Lakes • 4. Biomes 1. Geological Structure and Relief * Relief: means topography‚ or landforms such as mountains‚ lowlands‚ highlands etc. * Geology: is dynamics is the reasons for relief; we have interconnection between geological structures & relief. it is the inner structures of the earth.
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12B Assessment – Writing Assignment #3 YOU MUST WRITE ABOUT ONE OF THE TOPICS BELOW. YOU MAY CHOOSE WHICHEVER ONE MOST INTERESTS YOU. - Write a multi-paragraph essay supporting your position on your chosen topic. - The essay should be a minimum of 5 paragraphs‚ with an introduction‚ 3 body paragraphs‚ and a conclusion - Be sure to include specific details and examples from your own experiences or readings. As you write‚ remember your essay will be scored based on how well you: develop
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La Consolacion College – Isabela Geography Pre-Final Exam Mr. Efren Barbadillo Sept. 19-21‚ 2013 TEST I – Identification ____________ 1. The aqueous envelope of the earth including oceans‚ lakes‚ streams‚ and underground waters‚ as well as the water vapor in the atmosphere. ____________2. Recognized simply as conditions of normal weather and climate. ____________3. The only effective source of heat for the earth and its atmosphere. ____________4. The solar system reaching
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Earthquakes Geography project Done by: DESHER TROTMAN Introduction Definition: An earthquake is a sudden tremor or movement of the earth’s crust‚ which originates naturally at or below the Earth’s surface. They can occur from fault lines where tectonic plates meet or from volcanic activity. Earthquakes are very common in areas of volcanic activity where they either proceed or accompany eruptions. Earthquakes caused by volcanic eruptions are rare since all volcanoes are not prone to violent
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Gone “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live”-Norman Cousins. I think half of me died along with him too. It has been 11 years since my dad passed away. I was brainwashed when Dedicators bought me into the city. They’d said I’d never get over his death‚ honestly‚ I didn’t. He was fighting back‚ from what exactly I couldn’t place. I saw my face in his full of a rare savage. He was on the ground full of agony and pain. I was weeping
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Movie Review: Gone with the Wind David O. Selznick’s Gone with the Wind‚ is a film based on the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. This film is set in Georgia the spring of 1861‚ and follows the life of a wealthy southern belle‚ Scarlett O’Hara. While the film focuses on the trial and tribulations of Scarlett’s love life‚ it also depicts life during the civil war‚ and after the civil war. Although the films depiction of southern life is somewhat reasonable‚ there are some historical inaccuracies
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Russian geography - Regions of Russia Russia is a country about 1.8 times the size of the US occupying the vast area between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean. It has an area of 10‚ 672‚000 sq. miles (17‚075‚200 sq.km) and a population of almost 150 million people. Occupying a large territory in Europe and Asia Russia is spread over all climatic zones except tropical. It takes over 8 hours by plane to reach from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. West of the Ural mountains from the
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