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Tarapacá

Victoria Yoduro

  • Investment Anmount: 350
  • Owner: SQM
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • The Tente en el Aire project aims to incorporate new mining areas into the Nueva Victoria Operation for the production of iodide, iodine, and nitrate-rich salts, which will result in an increase in the total amount of caliche extracted, as well as in iodide, iodine, and nitrate-rich salts production, and in water usage for these processes.
Victoria Yoduro
  • Primary Mineral: Iodine
  • Projected production: 28 millones ton/year
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Construction
  • Year: 2025
Tarapacá

Collahuasi

  • Investment Anmount: 3670
  • Owner: Anglo American / Glencore / Mitsui
  • Headquarters: United Kingdom / Switzerland / Japan
  • Operational continuity, extending Life of Mine by 20 years, with increased processing capacity of sulphide copper ore from 170 ktpd to 210 ktpd
Collahuasi
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 116.000 (Cochilco) Se estima que el Proyecto producirá un promedio de 70.000 toneladas/año de cátodos de cobre, un promedio de 21.850 toneladas/año de concentrado de molibdeno y un promedio de 2.868.000 t/año de concentrado de cobre
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Construction
  • Year: 2026
Atacama

Arqueros / Nueva Esperanza

  • Investment Anmount: 200
  • Owner: Nittetsu
  • Headquarters: Japan
  • Minera Arqueros is a mineral extraction and processing project that includes the development of an underground mine, the construction of a concentrator plant, and a thickened tailings deposit, which will enable the recovery of between 72% and 75% of the water used, allowing it to be recirculated in the process. Minera Arqueros is a mineral extraction and processing project that includes the development of an underground mine, the construction of a concentrator plant, and a thickened tailings deposit, which will enable the recovery of between 72% and 75% of the water used, allowing it to be recirculated in the process.
Arqueros / Nueva Esperanza
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 16000
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Prefeasibility
  • Year: 2026
Antofagasta

Extensión Vida Útil Proyecto María Elena

  • Investment Anmount: 75
  • Owner: SQM
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • This project aims to resume the extraction of caliche, a key mineral in the production of potassium nitrate, and to extend operations until 2030. The site, which has been inactive since 2019 due to market conditions and operational requirements, represents a key component in SQM’s production strategy for the coming years.
Extensión Vida Útil Proyecto María Elena
  • Primary Mineral: Litio
  • Projected production: Revisar producción antigua del proyecto, al ser extensión de vida útil anterior
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment:
  • Stage:
  • Year: 2026
Atacama

Modificación y Optimización de Faena Minera Mantoverde en comuna de Chañaral y transporte de concentrados a puertos de zona de Mejillones

  • Investment Anmount: 150
  • Owner: Capstone Copper
  • Headquarters: Canada
  • The “Modification and Optimization of the Mantoverde Mining Operation, in the commune of Chañaral, and transport of concentrates to ports in the Mejillones area” Project aims to optimize the operations and processes of sulfide ore at the Mantoverde mining site to increase copper processing capacity.
Modificación y Optimización de Faena Minera Mantoverde en comuna de Chañaral y transporte de concentrados a puertos de zona de Mejillones
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 82000
  • Secondary Mineral: Cobalt
  • Projected production: 2000
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage:
  • Year: 2027
Antofagasta

Adecuación Operacional Spence

  • Investment Anmount: 1652
  • Owner: BHP
  • Headquarters: Australia
  • The "Spence Operational Adjustment" project involves adapting Spence’s current leaching operation, thereby extending the lifespan of this process until the year 2039.
Adecuación Operacional Spence
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: Considerar el tratamiento de mineral 95.000 - 105.000 ton??
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage:
  • Year: 2028
Atacama

Desarrollo Costa fuego

  • Investment Anmount: 1100
  • Owner: Hot Chili
  • Headquarters: Australia
  • The Costa Fuego project includes a combination of sulfide and oxide material processing that produces both copper concentrate and copper cathode.
Desarrollo Costa fuego
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 100000
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
  • Stage: Prefeasibility
  • Year: 2029
Antofagasta

Expansión Concentradora Laguna Seca

  • Investment Anmount: 2300
  • Owner: BHP, Minera Escondida
  • Headquarters: Australia
  • This Project will optimize the current operations of the Laguna Seca Concentrator Plant Complex, as a reduction in copper production is expected due to declining ore grades and increased mineral hardness. In addition, to implement a new electrical transmission line of approximately 300 meters within the PCLS area, necessary to supply energy in light of the planned adjustments. +I51
Expansión Concentradora Laguna Seca
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: Verificar producción estimada, entendiendo que es una expansión de una concentradora, verificar producción de laguna seca
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
Biobío

Penco Module

  • Investment Anmount: 130
  • Owner: Aclara
  • Headquarters: Canada
  • Mining Development Project for Clay Extraction for the Production of Rare Earth Concentrate
Penco Module
  • Primary Mineral: Rare Earths
  • Projected production: 1.700 ton/year
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
Antofagasta

Mina Barreal Seco

  • Investment Anmount: 73
  • Owner: Minera Las Cenizas
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • Operational continuity for 29 years
Mina Barreal Seco
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: Promedio 13.400 ton/año
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Prefeasibility
  • Year: 2026
Metropolitana

Proyecto Los Bronces Integrado

Proyecto Los Bronces Integrado
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 180000
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Prefeasibility
  • Year: 2027
Atacama

Santo Domingo

  • Investment Anmount: 1800
  • Owner: Capstone Copper
  • Headquarters: Canada
  • Exploitation of copper and magnetite mineral reserves from open pits located in the Sierra de Santo Domingo in the municipality of Diego de Almagro. The extracted mineral will be processed using conventional flotation to obtain copper concentrate. The flotation tailings will then undergo a magnetic separation process to obtain magnetite concentrate.
Santo Domingo
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 3.6 million tons per year
  • Secondary Mineral: Magnetita
  • Projected production: 75 million tons per year
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Feasibility & Design
  • Year: 2028
Atacama

Modificación Proyecto Mina Los Colorados: Ajustes y Continuidad Operacional

Modificación Proyecto Mina Los Colorados: Ajustes y Continuidad Operacional
  • Primary Mineral: Hierro
  • Projected production: 9,8 millones toneladas por año
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
Atacama

Candelaria

  • Investment Anmount: 600
  • Owner: Lundin / Sumitomo
  • Headquarters: Canada / Japan
  • Optimization and operational continuity, extending the Life of Mine by 23 years, according to increased reserves and resources. Entails an average ore processing rate of 90,000 tpd
Candelaria
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 160.000 ton/year
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Feasibility Study & Design
  • Year: 2025
Antofagasta

Salar de Ascotán

  • Investment Anmount:
  • Owner: Eramet, Quiborax,Codelco
  • Headquarters: Chile / France
  • Development of lithium extraction operations
Salar de Ascotán
  • Primary Mineral: Lithium Carbonate Equivalent
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
  • Stage: Exploration
  • Year: 2025
Atacama

Laguna Verde

  • Investment Anmount:
  • Owner: TBC
  • Headquarters: N/A
  • Development of lithium extraction operations
Laguna Verde
  • Primary Mineral: Lithium Carbonate Equivalent
  • Projected production: 20.000 ton/year
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
  • Stage: Exploration
  • Year: 2025
Antofagasta

Quillagua Sur

  • Investment Anmount:
  • Owner: TBC
  • Headquarters: N/A
  • Development of lithium extraction operations
Quillagua Sur
  • Primary Mineral: Lithium Carbonate Equivalent
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
  • Stage: Exploration
  • Year: 2025
Atacama

Salvador Division

  • Investment Anmount: 2494
  • Owner: Codelco
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • Extension of the mining operation by developing an open pit in the mineralized body that has historically been mined underground.
Salvador Division
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 70000
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Development & Construction
  • Year: 2026
Atacama

El Way Este

  • Investment Anmount: 75
  • Owner: Biobío Cementos
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • Extension of the operations via a new open pit
El Way Este
  • Primary Mineral: Cemento
  • Projected production:
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
Atacama

Sales Maricunga

  • Investment Anmount: 350
  • Owner: Simbalik, Grupo Errazuriz
  • Headquarters: Chile, Singapore
  • The exploitation of brine from the northeastern sector of the Maricunga Salt Flat using solar evaporation and subsequent precipitation in processing plants.
Sales Maricunga
  • Primary Mineral: Lithium Carbonate Equivalent
  • Projected production: 20.000 ton/year
  • Secondary Mineral: Potassium Chloride
  • Projected production: 38900 tpa
Coquimbo

Minera Tres Valles

  • Investment Anmount: 30
  • Owner: NIU Invest
  • Headquarters: Germany
  • Ensure operational continuity until 2037 for the production of copper cathodes, through the extraction of our own ore from the Papomono underground mine and external ore from our purchasing power.
Minera Tres Valles
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production:
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
Antofagasta

Centinela

  • Investment Anmount: 3320
  • Owner: Antofagasta Minerals
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • Expansion of the mining operation, doubling the mineral processing capacity and extending the useful life by at least 30 more years.
Centinela
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 170000
  • Secondary Mineral: Gold
  • Projected production: N/A
Coquimbo

El Espino

  • Investment Anmount: 700
  • Owner: Pucobre
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • Construction of a copper and gold mining project with a Life of Mine of 18 years
El Espino
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 48000
  • Secondary Mineral: Gold
  • Projected production: 13.000 onzas
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Development & Construction
  • Year: 2028
Atacama

Nueva Esperanza

  • Investment Anmount: 215
  • Owner: Kingsgate
  • Headquarters: Australia
  • A gold and silver mining project for the exploitation of the Arqueros, Chimberos and Teteritas deposits
Nueva Esperanza
  • Primary Mineral: Gold
  • Projected production:
  • Secondary Mineral: Silver
  • Projected production: 7.5 million ounces of Silver Equivalent
  • Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
  • Stage: Prefeasibility Study
  • Year:
Antofagasta

Sierra Gorda

  • Investment Anmount: 1800
  • Owner: KGHM, Sumitomo
  • Headquarters: Poland, Japan
  • A mining expansion project that seeks to extend the useful life of the operation by 30 years
Sierra Gorda
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 230000
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
  • Stage: Prefeasibility Study
  • Year: 2031
Antofagasta

Escondida

  • Investment Anmount: 1100
  • Owner: BHP, Rio Tinto
  • Headquarters: Australia
  • Tailings leaching project that seeks to process secondary and mixed minerals through sodium chloride enhanced leaching to optimize copper recovery and with a projected lifespan of 30 years
Escondida
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production:
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment:
  • Stage: Development & Construction
  • Year: 2030-2032
Atacama

Fundición Hernán Videla Lira (Paipote)

  • Investment Anmount: 1400
  • Owner: Enami
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • A project to modernize the current smelter to meet high environmental and production standards, including an electrolytic refinery and a precious metals plant.
Fundición Hernán Videla Lira (Paipote)
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 275.000 ton/ year
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
Antofagasta

Michilla

  • Investment Anmount: 235
  • Owner: Minera HMC
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • The project is a modification of an existing project. Its objective is to continue operations at the Michilla mining site through a new mining method (underground) and the reactivation of certain sectors, without exceeding the mineral processing capacity already authorized under RCA No. 106/2018.
Michilla
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: COCHILCO: 23.000 ton/year SEA: El Proyecto generará cátodos de cobre, la producción durante toda la vida útil se estima del orden de las 391.000 toneladas
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Construction
  • Year: 2025
Atacama

La Farola

  • Investment Anmount: 260
  • Owner: Minera Altair S.A
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • Mining project involving the exploitation of an open-pit mine and the construction of a plant to produce copper concentrates containing gold.
La Farola
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 90.000 ton/año
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
  • Enviromental Assesment: Approved
  • Stage: Prefeasibility
  • Year: 2026
Metropolitana

Planta Paneles de Yeso y Ampliación Cantera Rubí

  • Investment Anmount: 102
  • Owner: Knauf
  • Headquarters: Germany
  • Its objective is to build and operate a new gypsum board manufacturing plant for sale in the construction market, with a particular focus on social housing construction, and to expand gypsum mining at the Rubí quarry, which will supply raw materials to the plant.
Planta Paneles de Yeso y Ampliación Cantera Rubí
  • Primary Mineral: Yeso
  • Projected production: 375
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: N/A
Antofagasta

Ciclón Exploradora

  • Investment Anmount: 125
  • Owner: Eco Earth Elements
  • Headquarters: Chile
  • Its overall objective is the underground exploitation of the Ciclón and Exploradora mines, with the aim of extracting the polymetallic minerals present in both veins (mainly copper, zinc, silver, lead, and gold), with an estimated useful life of 16 years of operation. The underground mines will be exploited using the “Bench and Fill” method, with both underground mines feeding the Processing Plant.
Ciclón Exploradora
  • Primary Mineral: Gold
  • Projected production: EIA: Cuadro N° 1.7.11. Resumen Producción Minerales 2028 - 2044 Producción de Sulfato de Cobre (ton CuSO4) 110.000 Metal Doré (ton) 300 Concentrado de Cobre (ton) 250.000 Concentrado de Plomo (ton) 120.000 Concentrado de Zinc (ton) 275.000
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production: EIA: Cuadro N° 1.7.11. Resumen Producción Minerales 2028 - 2044 Producción de Sulfato de Cobre (ton CuSO4) 110.000 Metal Doré (ton) 300 Concentrado de Cobre (ton) 250.000 Concentrado de Plomo (ton) 120.000 Concentrado de Zinc (ton) 275.000
Antofagasta

Continuidad Operacional Minera El Abra

  • Investment Anmount: 7500
  • Owner: Freeport-McMoran
  • Headquarters: United States
  • This project aims to expand and extend the useful life of Minera El Abra.
  • Primary Mineral: Copper
  • Projected production: 750000
  • Secondary Mineral: N/A
  • Projected production:
  • Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
  • Stage: Prefeasibility Study
  • Year: 2028

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