Tag: Chile

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:56 UTC

  Chile is the world’s leader in star gazing with the most powerful telescopes

  

  Many of the world’s largest investments in the field of astronomy can be found in Chile for the same reasons that Cerro Armazones, in the Antofagasta region, may become home to a new telescope that would produce images 15 times shaper than the Hubble telescope.

• Thursday, August 24th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Cellulose Prices at their Highest in Five Years

  Chilean wood pulp producers Copec and CMPC are cashing in on high cellulose prices, which rose to a year-to-date high of 708.7 US dollars a ton on Tuesday. This is the highest price for cellulose since 2002, the disastrous year when cellulose prices fell to 433.2 US dollars a ton.