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for local construction, aided by cheap fuel as distillation waste from the refinery. By the 1960s, this had led to a perceptible change in the shape of the mountain when viewed from a distance. To preserve its appearance, mining since has adopted a 'hollow-tooth' strategy, where mining proceeds and
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visit in 1947. From 1914, the entire economy of Curaçao was re-invigorated by the construction of the
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that forms the south-east of Curaçao, although there are also commercially-significant phosphate and
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and two intermediate peaks, all in the volcanic northwest of the island. It is formed mostly of the
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