Escondida copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is currently the world’s largest copper mine by reserve. The mine contained more than 32 million tonnes (Mt) of recoverable copper reserves at the end of 2012.
Escondida is also the world’s largest copper producing mine – in the financial year ending June 2013 output stood at 1.1 million tonnes (Mt), accounting for about five percent of global copper production.