Chilean Nitrate Company

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Nitrates began to be worked in Chile from the 1850s, at that time the only source of fertilizer for the world market (which remained the case until Germany began producing fertilizer artificially in around 1915). The Nitrate Corporation of Chile has its origins in the Lautaro Nitrate Company Ltd (incorporated in London January 1889) and the Santa Luisa Nitrate Co Ltd. Both companies worked nitrate grounds in the vicinity of Antofagasta, Chile, and in March 1889 they reached an agreement to work their grounds as a joint operation. The Lautaro Nitrate Company Ltd went into voluntary liquidation in 1951, the undertaking and assets having been acquired by Compania Salitrera Anglo-Lautaro (Anglo-Lautaro Nitrate Corporation) which had been incorporated in Chile in 1931 as Compania Salitrera Anglo-Chilena, changing its name in 1951 to acquire the undertaking and certain assets of the Anglo-Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corporation. In 1968 a plan of reorganisation was undertaken to provide for the establishment of a new Chilean company to which most of the operating assets of the company were transferred.

Includes approximately 40 films showing the companies operations in Chile and the use of fertilizers, 1950s-1960s (currently not available for viewing) Film titles include: Nitrate: the story of a great discovery More fruit from British orchards Views around Santiago

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