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Antamina mine

Antamina mine, Peru. Producing, open pit, mining copper, zinc, molybdenum, silver.

Why Antamina is famous

Large copper and zinc mine in Ancash, Peru, joint-owned by several majors. Teck's 22.5% share was 86 kt of copper in concentrate and 102 kt of zinc in concentrate in 2025. Teck gives life of mine to 2036.1,2

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Antamina today

Where copper is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayWhere molybdenum is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayMining in Peru

Sources

  1. Annual Information Form 2025 and MD&A Teck Resources (SEC exhibit 99.1 to Form 40-F)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Ball mills and SAG mills by photosmith2011, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0; Froth flotation and tailings by Nina111955, CC BY-SA 4.0.