Candelaria mine
The Candelaria mine is a large open pit and underground copper-gold mine located in northern Chile in the Atacama Region. Candelaria has Proven and Probable Reserves of 676 million tonnes of ore grading 0.53% copper, 0.13 g/t gold, and 1.79 g/t silver; containing 3.58 million tonnes of copper, 3.0 million oz of gold and 39 million oz of silver. The mine project incorporates a reverse osmosis plant at the port of Caldera, commissioned in 2013, with a capacity to produce 500 litres per second of desalinated industrial water, piping it 115 km from the Pacific Ocean to the minesite.
| Location | |
|---|---|
Candelaria mine | |
| Location | Tierra Amarilla, Atacama |
| Region | Atacama Region |
| Country | Chile |
| Coordinates | 27.4646°S 70.2752°W |
| Production | |
| Products | Copper, gold, silver as concentrate |
| Production | 151,719 tonnes copper 91,000 ounces gold |
| Financial year | 2021 |
| History | |
| Discovered | 1987 (Phelps Dodge) |
| Opened | 1995 |
| Owner | |
| Company | Lundin Mining (80%) Sumitomo Group (20%) |
The project was operated since discovery by Phelps Dodge, which was taken over by Freeport-McMoRan in 2007. Lundin Mining bought out Freeport's 80% stake in 2014.
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