Atacama Desert Stocks List
Symbol | Grade | Name | % Change | |
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ADY | A | Admiralty Resources NL | 0.00 | |
CPO | F | Culpeo Minerals Limited | 0.00 | |
KCN | B | Kingsgate Consolidated Limited | 9.49 | |
SLM | F | Solis Minerals Ltd | 3.09 |
Related Industries: Copper Gold Industrial Metals & Minerals Marketing Services
Date | Stock | Title |
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May 9 | SLM | Solis Bolsters Copper Landholding in Peru |
May 5 | KCN | Can Kingsgate Consolidated Limited (ASX:KCN) Maintain Its Strong Returns? |
- Atacama Desert
The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is one of the driest places in the world (the driest being the McMurdo Dry Valleys ) , as well as the only true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts. According to estimates, the Atacama Desert occupies 105,000 km2 (41,000 sq mi), or 128,000 km2 (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes.
The desert owes its extreme aridity to a constant temperature inversion due to the cool north-flowing Humboldt ocean current, and to the presence of the strong Pacific anticyclone. The most arid region of the Atacama desert is situated between two mountain chains (the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range) of sufficient height to prevent moisture advection from either the Pacific or the Atlantic Oceans, a two-sided rain shadow.
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