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The Codelco Chuquicamata copper mine has been a successful open pit operation for years But now it s undergoing a transformation Codelco is an autonomous company owned by the Chilean people It is the main producer of copper in the world and a leader in mineral reserves on a global level In many ways it is the engine powering Chile s
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A two day old strike at Codelco s Chuquicamata copper mine in northern Chile along with the potential for walkouts at other major mines are not having a significant impact on copper prices as traders worry more about the potential loss of demand amid global trade tensions Codelco is Chile s state run copper company Workers walked off
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Chuquicamata is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine in the world Its depth of 850m makes it the second deepest open pit mine in the world after Bingham Canyon mine in Utah USA It is located in the north of Chile only 15 km from the city of Calama and 1 240 km from Santiago
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Chuquicamata Chile Underground Chuquicamata is a strategic mining project for Codelco the state owned Chilean copper mining company 140 000 tons of ore will be mined and treated per day making Chuquicamata one of the largest mining operations on the globe with an estimated investment of more than US$ billion by 2024
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The Chuquicamata Copper Mine belongs to a very important branch of industry in Chile Mining processing and export of copper are of utmost importance for the country s economy Copper mining is in fact so important that entire towns of several thousands inhabitants have formed around the mines The town of Chuquicamata was abandoned in 2024
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Everything about Chuquicamata affectionately known as Chuqui by Chileans is epic in scale and its history is in many ways the history of Chile The area has been mined since before
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Production climbed steadily from an initial yield of 45 000 metric tons per year to 51 000 tons in 1918 100 000 in 1923 and 200 000 by 1937 Today Chuquicamata is the largest mine in the world and the largest man made hole in the planet In 1923 Guggenheim Bros transferred the property of the mines to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company
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The century old copper mine is Codelco s second largest after El Teniente Last year it churned out just over a quarter of the company s total production The Chuquicamata smelter is
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Chuquicamata produced 443 000 tons of copper last year but experts say that by 2024 it will be unprofitable So state owned mining company Codelco is trying to head off closure by taking
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The town of Chuquicamata is now a ghost town because for environmental concerns they moved everyone to the nearby town of Calama The old town is one of the stops on the tour and here they explained to us how the mine works and from old photo s we could see the town at its best and in full swing but now its simply abandoned The hospital in its day was the most advanced in South America
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Montero now controls a 182 square mile 471 km 2 area in the same geological setting as Spence and Sierra Gorda copper molybdenum mines and is 40 km west of the supergiant Chuquicamata porphyry deposit the largest open pit copper molybdenum mine in the world Tony Harwood president and CEO of Montero commented
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The walk off comes as workers at BHP s Escondida mine Chile s biggest by output last week rejected the company s final contract offer raising the spectre of labor action at 2 of the largest copper mines in Chile the world s top copper producer Chuquicamata produced 330 900t of copper in 2024 out of Codelco s total
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Chuquicamata in northern Chile is the world s greatest copper orebody It was controlled from the initial intrusions probably at 36 33 Ma through mineralization last major hydrothermal event
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Chuquicamata is an open cast copper mine where a relatively poor copper ore is mined in impressive huge amounts Modern mining and smelting technology allows the usage of such depostits at unrivaled low costs The ore contains only between 1 13% and 1 18% metals most of it copper but also molybdenum and selenium in a very low proportion
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Chuquicamata Mine world s largest open pit copper mine located in the northern Atacama Desert in Chile approximately 150 miles northeast of the port city of Antofagasta At 9 500 feet above sea level it measures 2 miles in length miles in width and almost half a mile in depth With estimated reserves of 600 million to 1 billion tons
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The Chuquicamata Mine owned by Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile is an underground mine located in Antofagasta The mine produced an estimated Thousand tonnes of copper in 2024 The mine will operate until 2024 5 Los Pelambres Mine Owned by Antofagasta Plc the Los Pelambres Mine is a surface mine located in Elqui
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Abstract Chuquicamata underground mine MCHS is currently extracting ore from the first level through macroblocks arranged from North to South This work analyses the efficiency of the design of drawpoint spacing in terms of gravity flow for macroblocks MB N01 S01 with a drawpoint spacing of 16 × 16 m2 The characterisation of gravity flow in terms of reserve recovery remaining ore
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Aug 12 USd/lb % Codelco is using artificial intelligence to squeeze out more copper from its aging Chilean mines as suppliers of the metal look to boost efficiencies amid a dearth of
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Chuquicamata Mine Chile Main Content Home Media Gallery Earthshots Mining The Atacama Desert of northern Chile has minimal vegetation But it has ample mineral wealth large amounts of copper gold silver and other industrial metals This includes the world s largest open pit copper mine and the second deepest open pit—the
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Chile s copper mines provide over 30% of the world s mine production of recoverable copper according to to statisctics of the Department of the Interior Chuquicamata is an opencast copper mine where a relatively poor copper ore is mined in impressive huge amounts Modern mining and smelting technology allows the usage of such
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Chuquicamata the largest open pit copper mine in the world is the white and tan area right center just west of the volcanos in the lower 2850 meters arid Atacama Desert Copper from Chuquicamata is transported by rail southwest to the port city of Antofagasta Approximately 30 000 people work in the remote region around the mine
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Chuquicamata mine Calama Atacama ChileChuquicamata or Chuqui as it is more familiarly known is by excavated volume the largest open pit copper mine
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The Chuquicamata mine is a large open pit copper mine located 1 650km north of Santiago Chile The mine popularly know Location North Chile Operating since 1910 Current mining method Open pit Underground mine to be commissioned 2024 19 Expand The underground mine will be developed at an estimated cost of $2bn
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Chacabuco Ghost Town from the Saltpeter Mining Era near Chuquicamata world s biggest open pit copper mine Calama Chile Mining Operations at open pit Copper Mining Operations at open pit Copper
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Construction at Chuquicamata Underground Mine in Chile Project Requirements The Chuquicamata underground expansion will be implemented using conventional drill and blast drifting Due to the nature of the orebody the geological conditions and the strength requirements for the underground support demanding fortification systems for the infrastructure below the caving ore body apply Fiber
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The three largest mines owned by private companies in Chile are Escondida Collahuasi and Los Bronces At Escondida the highest producing copper mine in the world 2024 results came up short of projections Copper production at Escondida in FY 2024 decreased by 6% to million mt as a consequence of a 12% decline in copper grades
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In 2024 the underground mine delivered to the mill %Cu The target for 2024 and 2024 was to deliver 18Mt and 38Mt of ore respectively The accompanying analysis considers production of copper in concentrate at the nominal 175kt/d Chuquicamata mill MINCO and production from the oxide line
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The smelter at Chuquicamata is one of Chile s largest with the capacity to handle million mt/year of copper concentrates and processes production from Codelco s Chuquicamata Ministro Hales and Radomiro Tomic mines Launched in 2024 the Chuquicamata underground mine is designed to maintain production from the porphyry deposit as the
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4 days agoChuquicamata produced 319 280 t of copper and 16 000 t of molybdenum in 2024 Avispa is situated within the defined north south trending Palaeocene Eocene Cu Mo porphyry belt and north of BHP s Spence Cu Mo mine and KGHM/South32 s Sierra Gorda Cu Mo mine Avispa is also only 20 km east of the extensive north south trending Caliche Nitrate
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Unions at Chuquicamata copper mine signal support for Chilean demonstrators strike action The main trade unions at Codelco s Chuquicamata division have signaled support for protests currently taking place in Chile while criticizing an escalation in violence that led to an army supervised curfew being imposed in the country
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