Chagres

In a speech at Colegio Abel Bravo he spoke of road improvements--particularly to the crumbling Trans-Isthmian Highway--new aqueducts, improvements to several different sewer systems, dredging work on the garbage-clogged Quebrada Fantasma, more patrols at the Chagres National Park and the construction of a new community center.

Kramer had been one of the major cascading fellows on the Alabama, steaming from New Orleans to Chagres with Effinger and the Weller Commission staff (see page 14).

The $30 million, 110-room hotel, with its spectacular views of the Chagres River, is partly old and partly new.

The Chilean firm Compania Minera Disputada de Las Condes S.A., an EXXON subsidiary, in addition to the Chagres smelter, operates two copper mines, El Soldado and Los Bronces, and their associated concentrator plants.

A third lane would involve a similar colossal effort like that of the U.S engineers who dammed Panama's Chagres River between 1904 and 1914 to create the Gatun Lake, which makes up almost half of the length of the waterway.

Prior to the Panama Canal transit, the Marco Polo docked at the Pacific port of Balboa, and we drove inland by van along dirt roads to the muddy banks of the fast-flowing Chagres River, the principal source of water for operating the canal locks.

Along the Chagres River, for example, miners cleared vegetation and built earthen causeways into the river to dredge gravel from its bottom.

Finally, Exxon is going ahead with a doubling of capacity, to 300,000t/y, at Chagres. This proposed new capacity would, if it all went ahead, add 1.8Mt to Chile's current theoretical capacity of almost 4Mt/y of concentrate.

Showcasing rainforest surroundings in a theme-park style, facilities include boat trips to spot wading birds and turtles along the jungle-fringed Chagres River, and aerial tram rides through the forest canopy.