BE Mining [ Issue 17 ]
regional focus: chile
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20 KGHM Polska Miedź - Sierra Gorda Project
Strength in numbers As the Sierra Gorda Project enters an exciting new phase of its life, Senior Vice President of the project, Joseph Tis reflects on how the collective efforts and achievements of its workforce made 2013 such an important year.
34 Codelco - Chuquicamata Mine
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48 Anglo American - Los Bronces
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Bigger is better The mineral wealth of Chuquicamata, now the world’s largest open-pit mine, has been known since prehispanic times. Today a massive underground expansion project is taking the asset into a new era of future prosperity.
Champions of copper The Los Bronces mine in the Chilean Andes is continuing along a path to becoming the fifth largest copper mine in the world and one with several decades of productivity still ahead of it.
60 Barrick South America
The jewel in the crown Barrick had a significant investment programme for South America in 2013, much of which was targeted to advance the construction of Pascua-Lama, the world’s first bi-national mine, expected to be operational in the second half of 2014.
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