Los Bronces copper and molybdenum mine in Chile
As of 2017, the mine has a reserve life of 23 years. The project has environmental approval until 2036. Mining. The Los Bronces open pit mining involves drilling and blasting techniques to extract ore. The ore is extracted, crushed and transported through a 56km slurry pipeline to the Las Tórtolas flotation plant.
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LOS BRONCES SITE VISIT
MINE SITE OVERVIEW LOS ANDES Los Bronces Plant CODELCO Andina Los Bronces Pit Confluencia Plant Cathodes Plant Perez Caldera Facilities Perez Caldera Tailing dam El Soldado mine Chagres smelter Las Tórtolas plant District LB Santiago Colina Viña del Mar Ventanas Port Location: 3500 masl, 65 km NE of Santiago
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Anglo American: Los Bronces
Anglo American has been operating in Chile since 1980 and over the years has strengthened its holding through a series of acquisitions until, in 2002, it added the Los Bronces mine to its operations. Los Bronces is an open-cut copper and molybdenum mine. In 2011, Los Bronces produced 221,762 tonnes of fine copper, including high-purity cathodes ...
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Los Bronces Copper and Molybdenum Mine
Los Bronces mine, located in the Andean Mountains at an altitude of 3,500m above sea level, extracts the Porphyry cluster adjacent to Andina operations of Codelco. The ore body comprises primary sulphides such as Chalcopyrite and bornite with a thick overlaying blanket of chalcocite. The Los Bronces ore is …
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Anglo American statement re. Los Bronces project permitting
LBIP is a mine life extension project which expands the current open pit within Los Bronces' operating site and replaces future lower grade ore by accessing higher grade ore …
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Sprung Project: Los Bronces Mine
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The Los Bronces Development Project
Los Bronces overview • The Los Bronces mine, mill and SxEw plants are located in the Andes Mountains 3,500masl, 65km NE of Santiago • The Las Tortolas Cu-Mo flotation plant is located in Colina, 740masl, 45km N of Santiago • The ore is transported by gravity in a slurry pipeline 56km long • In 2006 Los Bronces produced 226kt of copper
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Anglo American unveils its digital vision
At the Los Bronces copper mine in Chile, semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill throughput has been maintained at 32% greater stability, with a 17% reduction in energy per tonne milled. ... Coarse particle recovery (CPR), also part of Concentrating the Mine, is a flotation process that allows material to be crushed to a larger particle size ...
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Los Bronces in transition phase while Anglo American focuses on …
The process to place the smaller and less efficient of the two processing plants at Los Bronces on care and maintenance is expected to be completed by mid-2024 and comes …
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Copper | Anglo American
Los Bronces. Los Bronces is an open-pit copper and moly mine in Chile. The mineral that is extracted is ground and transported by a 56-kilometer pipeline to the Las Tórtolas flotation plant, where copper and molybdenum contained in concentrates are produced.
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(PDF) Metal-Selective Processing from the Los Sulfatos Porphyry …
The fact that Anglo American Sur S.A. is evaluating the conditions for mining operation development in the coming years for the Los Sulfatos deposit, offers a rare opportunity to propose a multi-metal metallurgical processing in a porphyry Cu-Mo mining operation by implementing the high-resolution characterization proposed by Velásquez et al ...
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Los Bronces Mine | Dr. Sauer & Partners
Los Bronces copper mine, an open-pit operation at an altitude of 3500m ASL in the Chilean Andes, planned to utilise a tunnel for further deposit exploration and development. The project consisted of an 8.2km tunnel link between Los Bronces and Confluencia, connecting two processing plants. By applying drill and blast methods, a chamber was ...
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Codelco and Anglo American discuss mining pact to lift copper …
Talks are focusing on enabling Codelco's Andina mine and Anglo's Los Bronces to tap rich ore grades sitting between the two operations, as well as processing Andina ore at Los Bronces plants ...
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Chile rejects Anglo American's expansion of Los …
The Los Bronces Integrated Project (LBIP) would allow the company to tap higher grade ores from a new underground section of the mine, extending its life through 2036.
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Codelco eyes partnerships to help boost ailing copper
A possible operational collaboration at Andina-Los Bronces would be focused on tapping rich ore sitting between the two mines as well as sharing processing plants.
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Anglo American releases Los Bronces update
Anglo American has released an update on Los Bronces integrated project permitting process. ... The project uses the mine's existing processing facilities, optimises water efficiency, and requires no additional fresh water or tailings storage facilities. LBIP has been designed with the benefit of 10 years of scientific studies and a thorough ...
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Chile rejects Anglo American's expansion of Los …
Anglo American (LON: AAL) said on Tuesday a Chilean environmental regulator had formally rejected the company's application for a $3 billion expansion of its flagship Los Bronces copper mine.
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Processing of Complex Materials in the Copper Industry
Lower ore grades are reported in mines with high reserves, such as Los Bronces-Los Bronces Sur with 0.64%Cu), Andina with 0.62%Cu, but with the largest reported reserves, El Teniente with 0.56%Cu, ndida-Main Mine with 0.54%Cu, the largest producer in recent decades, and Los Pelambres with 0.51%Cu. ... From the mine processing point of view ...
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Los Bronces has a processing plant for sulphide minerals called Las Tórtolas, which is located 56 km from the extraction site. The minerals are concentrated by means of rougher cell flotation, …
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Anglo American Production Report Q3 2024
Total production of 181,300 tonnes reflects the reconfiguration of the Los Bronces mine and lower grades and recoveries at Quellaveco. Chile-Copper production was primarily impacted by the planned closure of the Los Bronces plant, which has been put on care and maintenance, resulting in a 7% decrease to 112,600 tonnes.
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Permitting process of Los Bronces project
Anglo American plc ("Anglo American") is currently engaged in an environmental assessment process for its Los Bronces Integrated Project (LBIP) in Chile, a process which began in 2019. LBIP is a mine life extension project which expands the current open pit within Los Bronces' operating site and replaces future lower grade ore by accessing ...
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Major Mines & Projects | Los Bronces Mine
Los Bronces Mine. Location: 47 km NE from Santiago, Chile Regional Office: Isidora Goyenechea, Torre Titanium, piso 47, Las Condes Santiago Chile 2800. Contacts: ... Website; Additional Resources for Suppliers & Investors. Drill results over 30 g/t Au. Stay on top of the latest gold discoveries. ...
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Anglo American comments on Los Bronces project permitting
Anglo American plc has released a statement commenting on the latest developments in the environmental assessment process for its Los Bronces Integrated Project ... LBIP is a mine life extension project which expands the current open pit within Los Bronces' operating site and replaces future lower grade ore by accessing higher grade ore from ...
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Anglo American Los Bronces
The IROC layout was designed according to the mine copper production process." The IROC and the mine crews operate on the same four days on four days off work schedule, within which there are two daily 12 hour …
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Anglo AmericAn: los Bronces
Anglo AmericAn: los Bronces to process 87,000 tonnes of ore a day." In many ways, production at Los Bronces is very traditional. It's an open-pit mine where ore is transported by truck to a bank of two crushers – one old plus one new installation – and later by conveyer to grinding
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Anglo American Awards CiDRA Contract for Los Bronces
The expansion of the Los Bronces copper mine is one of the largest mining jobs in Chile today. CiDRA's SONARtrac process monitoring systems were chosen to provide flow measurements at multiple key monitoring points on the new slurry pipeline, designed and managed by …
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LOS BRONCES OUR COMMODITY
LOS BRONCES Our Los Bronces copper expansion in Chile is one of our major strategic growth projects. First production from the expansion project is scheduled for Q4 2011, raising our total attributable copper output to over 900,000 tonnes per annum by 2012. OUR BUSINESS • Los Bronces is an opencut copper and molybdenum mine in the
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Anglo American to stop using fresh water at Los Bronces mine in …
Mining giant Anglo American said on Wednesday that it planned to stop using fresh water at its Los Bronces copper mine in Chile by 2030, instead switching to desalinated and recycled water amid a ...
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Metal-Selective Processing from the Los Sulfatos Porphyry-Type …
At present, the deposit is in its preliminary development stages as the Los Bronces underground mining project. The deposit contains more than 3.9 billion tons of mine-material enriched in Cu-Mo-sulfides and grading 1.14% Cu [ 10 ], which will be extracted throughout the duration of the mine's life.
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Anglo American awarded environmental permit for …
The project uses the mine's existing processing facilities, optimises water efficiency, has no impact on glaciers and requires no additional fresh water or tailings facilities. ... Los Bronces is one of three copper mines that Anglo …
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