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Collahuasi mine

Collahuasi mine, Chile. Producing, open pit, mining copper, molybdenum.

Why Collahuasi is famous

Collahuasi in Chile's Tarapaca Region is a copper and molybdenum joint venture of Anglo American (44 per cent), Glencore (44 per cent) and Japan Collahuasi Resources (12 per cent). In 2019 it had capacity for about 570,000 t of copper concentrate a year and made nearly 10 per cent of Chile's mined copper. Plans then aimed to raise throughput to 210,000 t a day by 2025.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Porphyry copper

Collahuasi today

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Where next

Deposit types

An example ofPorphyry copperCollahuasi belongs to the porphyry copper family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. 2019 Minerals Yearbook, Chile US Geological Survey
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

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: Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0; Haul trucks by Lechhabmed, CC BY-SA 4.0; Drilling and blasting by Siim Roov, CC BY-SA 4.0.