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Chuquicamata (/ tʃ uː k iː k ə ˈ m ɑː t ə / choo-kee-kə-MAH-tə; referred to as Chuqui for short) is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world. [citation needed] It is located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama, at 2,850 m (9,350 ft) above sea level.
The National Copper Corporation of Chile (Spanish: Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile), abbreviated as Codelco, is a Chilean state-owned copper mining company. It was formed in 1976 from foreign-owned copper companies that were nationalised in 1971. [3]
It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world. Its 2007 production of 1.483 million tons of the metal was worth US$10.12 billion, [1] mainly as metal in concentrate, but some as cathode, and was 9.5% of world output and 26% of Chilean production, according to the US Geological Survey's preliminary estimates of 2007 world mine ...
SNC-Lavalin won the contract from Codelco to help upgrade the sprawling Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile in 2012, followed by a deal to build the sulphuric acid plants at the mine in 2016.
Location of the La Escondida and Chuquicamata copper mines in Chile False color satellite image of Escondida (bottom) and neighbouring Zaldívar mines (top), April 2000. Escondida is a copper mine at 3,100 metres (10,200 ft) elevation in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta Region, Chile. [1]
The full reactivation of a smelter belonging to Chile's state-run Codelco, the world's top copper producer, will be delayed until the end of October after missing a previous target of April, four ...
The nationalization of the Chilean copper industry, commonly described as the Chileanization of copper (Spanish: Chilenización del cobre) [1] was the process by which the Chilean government acquired control of the major foreign-owned section of the Chilean copper mining industry. It involved the three huge mines known as 'La Gran Mineria' and ...
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