Sebastián Barrientos Fuentes
Process Engineer at Copper Center of Excellence.-Metallurgical and water balances for Copper and Molybdenum Concentrator Plants of Conceptual and Feasibility engineering studies.-Tailings Reprocessing technology flowsheet alternatives of a …
Smelting and Refining Copper in Chile: The …
Smelting and refining all the copper ore in Chile on the one hand helps to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Sturla et al., 2020), but on the other hand, by concentrating this process in one country (in spite of 12 countries), greatly affects the
Minera Los Pelambres
Minera Los Pelambres. The Los Pelambres deposit, located 200km north of Santiago and 45km east of Salamanca in Choapa Province, was discovered in the 1920s by one of Chilean copper's founding fathers, William Braden.
Los Pelambres Copper Mine, Increased Capacity | Bechtel
Bechtel built the original copper concentrator at Chile's Los Pelambres Mine, located approximately 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Santiago, between 1996 and 1999.
BHP plots $10b investment in Chile
Speaking at the 2022 CRU World Copper Conference in Santiago, Chile, BHP Minerals Americas president Ragnar Udd said the company was looking to commit more than $10 billion of further …
Fluor Joint Venture Awarded BHP Copper Concentrator Mining Project in Chile
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that its joint venture team was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for BHP's Spence Growth Option project at the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile. The 50/50 joint venture with SalfaCorp is responsible for the delivery of the 95,000-ton-per-day copper …
Chile | BHP
Chile We mine copper from some of the world's biggest copper deposits located at our ndida, Spence and Cerro Colorado operations in Chile. Our Chilean operations . ndida. ndida is the largest copper producer in the world. Find out more. Pampa Norte. Our Pampa Norte operations consist of two copper mines, Spence and Cerro …
Commissioning of HydroFloat® Separator in Anglo copper concentrator
This enables its operations to significantly reduce energy and freshwater usage per unit of copper produced. While this case – the El Soldado mine in Chile – was applied in copper, Anglo American is extending the learnings to other commodities.
Our operations
Our operations. Santo Domingo. The fully-permitted Santo Domingo copper-iron project is located near the town of Diego de Almagro in the Atacama region in Chile, approximately 35 kilometers northeast of Capstone's Mantoverde mine and 130 kilometers north-northeast of the city of Copiapó.
BHP inaugurates new copper concentrator in Spence to …
BHP CEO Mike Henry led the opening of Spence's new copper concentrator plant today. The project required an investment of $2.46 billion and has a …
Japan's Marubeni to invest in $4.4 bln copper expansion project in Chile
The project involves construction of a new concentrator plant, aiming to double capacity for production of copper concentrate, Marubeni said in a statement.
Chilean startup to scale-up tech to boost copper production …
SANTIAGO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Ceibo, a Chilean mining startup, is promising to improve copper production with less water and is aiming to expand tests to Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru ...
Optimal throughput policies for a copper concentrator
The best throughput policy for an existing copper concentrator with conventional grinding systems has been studied under a number of technological and financial preconditions. Simple empirical models based on data gathered in a number of sampling campaigns in a major Chilean concentrator are used to describe the …
Our operations
Our operations Mantoverde Mantoverde is an open-pit mine located in the Atacama region of Chile. It is currently comprised of four pits situated along the
Quebrada Blanca Copper Mine to Expand | Bechtel
Bechtel set to expand the Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile, comprising a143,000 tonnes-per-day copper concentrator, a high-capacity desalination plant, and a 165 …
Outotec provides concentrator technology for slag …
Outotec provides concentrator technology for slag treatment project in Chile. Outotec has signed a contract with Chilean Codelco, the leading copper producer in the world, for the delivery of concentration technology for a slag treatment plant to be located in connection with the Potrerillos copper smelter in Northern Chile.
Copper Production & Development
Chile, which accounts for over a quarter of global copper output, saw a production decrease of over 7% in both January and February 2022, compared to the corresponding months in 2021, according to the State Chilean Copper Commission (Cochilco).
Mantoverde Development Project
With proven experience delivering cost-effective projects under lumpsum EPC contracts, Ausenco was selected to lead the engineering, procurement, construction, and production ramp-up to nameplate for a copper concentrator plant and related infrastructure - including the expansion of the desalination plant and the tailings dam - at the Mantoverde …
Copper production in Chile requires 500 million cubic
The by far biggest copper mine in Chile, ndida, produces about 20% of overall Chilean copper production and is also the largest water user. Also the rest of the top-five water users Chuquicamata, El Teniente, Doña Inés de Collahuasi, and Centinela are all among the top-ten copper producers [ 4 ] .
BHP extends Spence by 50 years with copper concentrator site
The US$2,460mn copper concentrator plant in Chile has a throughput of 95,000tpd, producing copper concentrate and molybdenum concentrate. BHP has …
Outotec to deliver concentrator technology for Codelco in Chile
Outotec has signed a contract with Chilean Codelco, the leading copper producer in the world, for the design and delivery of concentrator technology to Codelco's new Mina Ministro Hales mine in ...
Caserones copper mine in Chile says to close copper concentrator
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Caserones copper mine in Chile said on Tuesday that it would temporarily shut down its copper concentrator in order to replace a leaking pipe.
Strike at world's largest copper mine in Chile; long conflict
Workers at BHP Billiton's ndida copper mine in Chile, the world's largest, walked off the job on Thursday in a strike that threatens to disrupt the international supply of the widely used metal.
Mount Isa Mines Copper Concentrator
The Mount Isa Mines (MIM) copper concentrator at Mount Isa processes both chalcopyrite ore from the MIM underground mine and rotary holding furnace (RHF) slag from the MIM copper smelter. There have been numerous changes to the processing practices since commissioning this concentrator in 1973. Current management of the concentrator …
Antofagasta to decide on $3B Centinela mine expansion by 2021
Speaking on the sidelines of the World Copper Conference held this week in Santiago, ... decided to advance the studies on a second concentrator rather than ... in Chile's Antofagasta region ...
Antofagasta closes $2.5-billion mine expansion loan
SANTIAGO, March 21, 2024 – Antofagasta has secured USD 2.5 billion in project financing for a second concentrator at its Centinela copper mine, the Chilean miner announced on Tuesday. The financing is a USD 2.5 billion term loan with a 4-year drawdown period and a term of approximately 12 years, and has been provided by a group of international …
Copper Mine in Chile Expands Extraction Capacity Thanks to …
BHP's $52 million infrastructure project to expand the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile, also known as the Spence Growth Option (SGO), will extend the service …
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Copper Bioleaching Operations in Chile: Towards New
The Chilean mining industry, after consolidating copper production through bioleaching in copper ore heaps, is now facing major challenges and changes in the exploitation of its copper reserves. The depletion of copper oxide ores, as well as a decrease in copper...