The driest place on the Earth

Atacama Minerals Chile is using surface mining techniques to extract iodine-laden caliche more efficiently in Aguas Blancas, Chile

25 September 2012
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Stretching more than 900km from the southern border of Peru into northern Chile is the Atacama Desert, a place world climatologists concur is the driest place on earth.

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