Zine publication on the occassion of the exhibition Coquimbo & Swansea at the National Waterfront Museum of Swansea.
From the late 1820s, copper ore was extracted from the Region of Coquimbo, northern Chile and smelted in the Lower Swansea Valley, Wales. Copper was mined from remote sites and brought by mule to Las Compañias. One of Chile’s first industrial metallurgical centres and where smelting processes had been established. The ore and partly-smelted copper was shipped to the Lower Swansea Valley to be refined. The valley was heavily contaminated for more than two centuries, until the1960s and 1970s when conservation work was carried out to reclaim polluted land.
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