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Los Pelambres' desalination plant 86% complete

Chilean miner Antofagasta (LON: ANTO) announced that the desalination plant that is part of the $2.2-billion expansion of Los Pelambres is 86% complete while the offshore infrastructure that...

Antofagasta gears up for phased growth at both Los …

The Los Pelambres Expansion project is divided into two phases with Phase 1 expected to be in production in H2 2023 and Phase 2 in 2026. Phase 1 is designed to …

Serious Danger: Emergency plan in the event of

False information, in the parallel world of Los Pelambres mining company. The information given by Minera Los Pelambres is completely false, and the serious thing is that it is the basis of the entire plan, which was approved by Sernageomin and by Onemi. What the mining company argues is that in the event of the collapse of the El Mauro dam ...

Copper Investing in Chile's Coastal Cordillera Belt

Unique geological profile The Chilean Andes represents the most copper-rich province on Earth, with a 2005 report showing estimated total resources of roughly 490 million tonnes, including mined ...

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Los Pelambres Copper Mine, Increased Capacity

WebBechtel built the original copper concentrator at Chile's Los Pelambres Mine, located approximately 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Santiago, between 1996 and 1999. In 2001, we returned to add a $40 million pebble …

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In the mid-1990s, following the successful performance of cycloned tailings sand dams during the March 1985 earthquake, the design of cycloned tailings sand dams was challenged to reach greater heights. The first case was the Quillayes cycloned tailings sand dam of the Los Pelambres Mine, located in the Andes Mountains, with a height of …

thyssenkrupp to deliver conveyor system for copper mine in …

4 Die von thyssenkrupp entwickelten Bandanlagen in der Los Pelambres Mine in Chile transportierten Kupfererz über eine Strecke von rund 12,7 km durch ein Tunnelsystem bergabwärts • The Los Pelambres downhill conveying system which was developed by thyssenkrupp transports copper ore over a total distance of 12.7 km through a tunnel …

Mineral Resources Business

Sustainability Report TOP. Mineral Resources Business. Since acquiring equity at the Caserones Copper Mine in Chile in 2006, we have taken a central role in its development, with copper concentrate production beginning in May 2014. We have further invested in some of the world's largest copper mines, including Los Pelambres and ndida ...

World's Longest Ore Conveyor

Every hour, the belt moves 8,700 t of ore out of the mine and down to the processing plant, which is located at an altitude of 1,600 m. This massive volume of ore is large enough to fill some 200 heavy-duty trucks. Without the conveyor belt, there would be no mine, says operations director Ricardo Funes Maggi, of mine operator Minera Los Pelambres.

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El Abra, Collahuasi, Radomiro Tomic, Los Pelambres and Antapaccay currently use these systems, resulting in site reductions in net electricity demand of 5-10%. 4. Gangue rejection and pre ...

Los Pelambres | Antofagasta PLC

60% OWNED. Los Pelambres is a sulphide deposit in Chile's Coquimbo Region, 240 km north of Santiago. It produces copper concentrate (containing gold and silver) and molybdenum concentrate through a …

Two Epiroc Pit Viper 351s go fully automated at …

The full autonomy of the Pit Viper 351 units has allowed Los Pelambres mine to withdraw the operator's face to face shifts and reduce the presence of the maintenance team in the drilling areas, reducing risk …

Quarterly Production Report – Q3 2022 | Antofagasta PLC

Group copper production in Q3 2022 was 181,900 tonnes, 40.1% higher than in the previous quarter with production nearly doubling at Los Pelambres, on improved water availability, and higher grades at Centinela. Group copper production for the first nine months of the year was 450,600 tonnes, 17.0% lower than in the same period last year …

Los Pelambres Copper Mine, Choapa Province, Chile

The Los Pelambres copper mine in Coquimbo region of Chile is currently being expanded in two phases. The mine has been operating since 2000 and currently produces copper concentrates containing gold and silver …

Sustainability Report 2022

becoming one of the first mining companies in Chile to complete the transition of all our operations to electricity supplied exclusively from renewable energy contracts. The process began in Zaldívar in July 2020, followed by Centinela and Antucoya in January 2022 and finally by Los Pelambres. This achievement allowed us to meet, three

Chile launches Covid-19 Plan at Minera Los Pelambres

New technology in mining. During the visit to Los Pelambres mining company, Undersecretary Iván Cheuquelaf was able to learn in detail about the implementation of autonomous drilling, an important technological process that is part of the company's automation. The project, which has a communication system between the …

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Minera Los Pelambres | 78,288 followers on LinkedIn. Minera Los Pelambres Productor de Cobre y Molibdeno de la Región de Coquimbo, Chile. Proceso Minero Enclavada a más de 3.600 mts de altura ...

Bulk Material Handling by Conveyor Belt III

Bulk Material Handling by Conveyor Belt III. M. A. Alspaugh. Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 2000 - Conveying machinery - 152 pages. Contains papers from a symposium at the 2000 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration meeting. Emphasis is on operations and maintenance issues. Papers are presented in sections on case ...

Innovative Conveyor Belt Changes Minimize Production Downtime at Los

An example of this is the recent replacement of two conveyor belts at Antofagasta PLC's Los Pelambres copper ore mine, located in Chile's Coquimbo Region, 240 km northeast of Santiago. This opencast mine lies in the Andes at an altitude of 3,300 m (10,800 ft). More than 8,000 mt/h of copper ore are transported by steel-cord conveyor belts ...

Chile-focused miner Antofagasta increases copper

A roundup of all the mining news in the precious metals sector with a variety of company news, mining sector analysis, newsletter writer insights and executive interviews. ... With the completion of the desalination plant and the concentrator plant expansion at Los Pelambres production will increase during the year to meet production …

LOS PELAMBRES DESALINATION PROJECT UPDATE – …

Despite the revision of the completion date of the desalination plant, water availability this year at Los Pelambres will allow Group copper production in 2022 to reach the lower end of the 640-660,000 tonne guidance range. The completion of the desalination plant is now estimated to impact previously planned production in 2023 by approximately ...

Pushing the limits of mine-mapping technology: UAVs over …

An unmanned aerial vehicle developed for the Slovenian military recently completed a record-breaking 80-minute mapping mission above one of the world's highest mines, the Los Pelambres complex in the Chilean Andes. Julian Turner talks to Nejc Trost, co-founder of C-ASTRAL Aerospace, the company behind the breakthrough, about the …

Major Mines & Projects | Los Pelambres Mine

Mine Life. 2035. Los Pelambres is a sulphide deposit. It produces copper concentrate (containing gold and silver) and molybdenum concentrate. The Los Pelambres …

Los Pelambres expansion capex rises 30% to $2.2bn

Read Now. London-listed Antofagasta has completed a review of the project schedule and costs for an expansion of its flagship Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile, and on Thursday reported a revised ...

Antofagasta Minerals marks 21 years of evolution

One of the world's largest copper mines, Antofagasta Minerals' Minera Los Pelambres is celebrating 21 years in operation, and the company has reviewed the mine's most important milestones, as well as outlining how it continues to develop mining for a better future. Despite the difficulties imposed by the pandemic, including the company's …

Chilean dam can't hold back the hatred

Despite the miniscule concentrations of metals at the mine – in this case one half of 1% – modern industrial mining is executed on such a massive scale that profits from Los Pelambres totalled ...

Two Epiroc Pit Viper 351s go fully automated at Los Pelambres …

Epiroc Chile together with Antofagasta Minerals' Los Pelambres copper mine recently undertook a project to automate the operation's Pit Viper blasthole drill rig fleet. For ten years the companies have worked together with Epiroc fulfilling an equipment maintenance contract that they say has been characterised by operational discipline and ...

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Kal Tire's mining tyre recycling facility in Chile nears full start-up as Los Pelambres copper mine provides initial batch of 2,300 t ... engineering and even building the equipment so it could offer thermal conversion recycling. The process uses heat and friction to induce a reaction that converts tyres into their base elements (fuel oil ...

Desalination plant delay to hit Los Pelambres …

Antofagasta, however, expects that the water availability at Los Pelambres this year will allow the group to achieve the lower end of the already-lowered 640 000 t to 660 000 t guidance range.