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Tarapacá
Nueva Victoria
- Investment Anmount: 350 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Iodine
- Projected production: 23 ktpa
- Secondary Mineral: Nitrates
- Projected production:
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2025
Tarapacá
Collahuasi
- Investment Anmount: 3200 (USD MM)
- Owner: Anglo American / Glencore / Mitsui
- Headquarters: United Kingdom / Switzerland / Japan
- Operational continuity project, extending Life of Mine by 20 years, with increased processing capacity of sulphide copper ore from 170 thousand tons per day (ktpd) to 210 thousand tons per day (ktpd).
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 70 ktpa cathodes / 2.9 mil ktpa concentrate
- Secondary Mineral: Molybdenum
- Projected production: 22 ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2026
Atacama
Arqueros
- Investment Anmount: 200 (USD MM)
- Owner: Compañía Minera Arqueros (JV between Nittetsu y Atacama Kozan)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 57ktpa concentrate
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2026
Antofagasta
María Elena
- Investment Anmount: 75 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Iodine
- Projected production: 1.6ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: No required
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2026
Atacama / Antofagasta
Mantoverde
- Investment Anmount: 150 (USD MM)
- Owner: Capstone Copper y Mitsubishi
- Headquarters: Canada / Japan
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 377 ktpa
- Secondary Mineral: Cobalt
- Projected production: 2 ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2027
Antofagasta
Spence
- Investment Anmount: 1652 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 200 ktpa de cátodos
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2028
Atacama
Costa Fuego
- Investment Anmount: 1300 (USD MM)
- 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 cathodes, as well as silver and molibdenun
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 74 ktpa
- Secondary Mineral: Gold
- Projected production: 48 kozpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
- Stage: Prefeasibility
- Year: 2029
Metropolitana
Los Bronces
- Investment Anmount: 3000 (USD MM)
- Owner: Anglo American /Mitsui / Codelco / Mitsubishi
- Headquarters: United Kingdom / Chile / Japan
- The project includes three new phases: two open-pit and one underground under Yerba Loca. It includes water and energy infrastructure without the use of fresh water, and underground mining with backfill for stability, minimizing impacts on the surface.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 290 ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2027
Atacama
Santo Domingo
- Investment Anmount: 1800 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 200 ktpa concentrate
- Secondary Mineral: Magnetita
- Projected production: 416 ktpa concentrate
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2028
Atacama
Los Colorados
- Investment Anmount: 344 (USD MM)
- Owner: Compañía Minera del Pacífico
- Headquarters: Chile
- The project seeks to exploit 95 Mt/year and operate until 2033, increasing plant capacity to 14.5 Mt/year and preconcentrate production to 9.8 Mt/year, with expansion of works, operational improvements and adjustments in internal infrastructure.y
- Primary Mineral: Iron ore
- Projected production: 9,8 mil ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Submitted - In evaluation
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2028
Atacama
Candelaria
- Investment Anmount: 600 (USD MM)
- Owner: Lundin / Sumitomo
- Headquarters: Canada / Japan
- The Project extends the operation of the Barreal Seco Mine by 29 years, supplying ore to the Taltal, Las Luces, and Franke plants. It includes pit expansion, enlargement of waste dumps and stockpiles, development of a new south waste dump, relocation of the civic facilities, and complementary installations.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 380 ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2025
Atacama
Salvador Division
- Investment Anmount: 2494 (USD MM)
- Owner: Codelco
- Headquarters: Chile
- This project extends the useful life, giving operational continuity to the current operation in El Salvador for 47 more years, all through the open pit exploitation of the remaining resources of the main Indio Muerto deposit, exploited since 1959 using panel caving.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 245 ktpa concentrado y 25 ktpa cátodos
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2026
Antofagasta
El Way Este
- Investment Anmount: 75 (USD MM)
- Owner: Biobío Cementos
- Headquarters: Chile
- The project aims to exploit the El Way Este pit and process limestone through Crushing Plant No. 3 and a lime plant with two vertical kilns, supplied with limestone from both the current El Way Mine and the new pit.
- Primary Mineral: Cal
- Projected production: 420 ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2026
Coquimbo
Minera Tres Valles
- Investment Anmount: 30 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 18.5 ktpa Cathodes
- Enviromental Assesment: Submitted - In evaluation
- Stage: Prefeasibility
- Year: 2027
Antofagasta
Centinela
- Investment Anmount: 4175 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 300 ktpa
- Secondary Mineral: Gold
- Projected production: 133 koz
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2024
Coquimbo
El Espino
- Investment Anmount: 700 (USD MM)
- Owner: Pucobre
- Headquarters: Chile
- The El Espino Project consists of the production of copper concentrate with gold content and high-purity copper cathodes, resulting from the open-pit exploitation of the El Espino deposit. It will operate for 16 years within a total life span of 20 years.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 148 ktpa concentrado y 7.2 ktpa cátodos
- Secondary Mineral: Gold
- Projected production: 13 koz
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2027
Atacama
Fundición Hernán Videla Lira (Paipote)
- Investment Anmount: 1700 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 233 ktpa catodos
- Secondary Mineral: Sulfuric Acid
- Projected production: 850 ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Submitted - In evaluation
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2026
Antofagasta
Michilla
- Investment Anmount: 235 (USD MM)
- Owner: Minera HMC
- Headquarters: Chile
- Reactivation of previously exploited sectors and integration into the operation of a complementary activity aimed at reprocessing mineral-containing material from previously discarded material, extending the useful life of the operation by an additional 21 years.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 20 ktpa cathodes
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2025
Atacama
La Farola
- Investment Anmount: 260 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 90 ktpa
- Secondary Mineral: Gold
- Projected production:
- Enviromental Assesment: Approved
- Stage: Construction
- Year: 2026
Metropolitana
Cantera Rubí y Planta de Paneles Puento Alto
- Investment Anmount: 102 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Gypsum
- Projected production: 22 M m2 por año paneles de yeso
- Enviromental Assesment: Submitted - In evaluation
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2026
Antofagasta/ Atacama
Ciclón Exploradora
- Investment Anmount: 125 (USD MM)
- 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.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 6.8 ktpa Sulfato de Cobre y 15.6 ktpa concentrado de Cu
- Secondary Mineral: Au, Pb, Zn
- Projected production: 19 tpa doré 7.5 ktpa Pb 17 ktpa Zn
- Enviromental Assesment: Submitted - In evaluation
- Stage: Feasibility
- Year: 2027
Antofagasta
El Abra
- Investment Anmount: 7500 (USD MM)
- Owner: Freeport-McMoran
- Headquarters: United States
- The project seeks to expand and extend the life of the operation, including a concentration plant, a seawater desalination plant, and a desalinated water pumping system.
- Primary Mineral: Copper
- Projected production: 340 ktpa
- Secondary Mineral: Molybdenum
- Projected production: 4 ktpa
- Enviromental Assesment: Not submitted
- Stage: Prefeasibility
- Year: 2028
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