El Algarrobo is an iron mine in north-central Chile.

Geologically it is an iron oxide-apatite (IOA) type of deposit.

[1] El Algarrobo is part of a wider province of iron ores known as the Chilean Iron Belt.

[2] From the 1970s onward El Romeral have come to overshadow El Algarrobo in iron ore production.

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