Iodine Reserves WIA World Iodine Association
Iodine from Chile is produced from Caliche Ore, mined in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and west of the Andes Mountains. The Atacama Desert is known as the driest of the worlds deserts, where measurable rainfalls 1 mm or more may be as infrequent as once every 5 to 29 years. The caliche deposits occupy an area averaging 700 km in a north south direction by 30 km in an east west































