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Chile
Caserones Mine

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 Location:
103 km SE from Copiapo, Chile

  Regional Office:
Av. Copayapu 1359
Copiapo
Chile
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Overview

StageProduction
Mine TypeOpen Pit
Commodities
  • Copper
  • Molybdenum
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
Processing
  • Filter press plant
  • Crush & Screen plant
  • Dewatering
  • Flotation
  • ROM/dump leach
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning
Mine Life17 years (as of Jan 1, 2020)
Latest NewsAgreement Reached on Acquisition of Full Rights and Interests in the Caserones Copper Mine     November 9, 2020


Owners

Source: p. 1
CompanyInterestOwnership
SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile SpA (operator) 100 % Direct
JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corp. 100 % Indirect
The Mine is operated by SCM Minera Lumina Copper Chile SpA, which is indirectly 100% owned by JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation (“JX Nippon”).

Deposit Type

  • Porphyry


Summary:

Caserones is located at the southern end of the well documented Maricunga mineral belt and comprises an Early-Miocene porphyry system associated with a cluster of dacite porphyries and breccias intruding Palaeozoic granitic, volcanic, and metamorphic rocks. Caserones has a well-developed supergene enrichment profile of oxide copper and secondary chalcocite that overlies hypogene sulfide (chalcopyritemolybdenite) mineralization.


Mining Methods

  • Truck & Shovel / Loader


Summary:

The Caserones open pit mine is developed upon a significant porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit in the Atacama Region of the northern Chilean Andean Cordillera, 162 kilometers southeast of the city of Copiapó, at an approximate elevation of 4,300 meters above sea level.


Crushing and Grinding
Flow Sheet: Source
Crusher / Mill TypeModelSizePowerQuantity
SAG mill 32000 HP 1
Ball mill 27000 HP 2


Processing

  • Filter press plant
  • Crush & Screen plant
  • Dewatering
  • Flotation
  • ROM/dump leach
  • Solvent Extraction & Electrowinning

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Summary:

Caserones considers an open pit operation, with a plant to produce copper and molybdenum concentrates from primary sulphides; and a solvent extraction and electro-obtaining plant (SX-EW) to produce copper cathodes by processing oxidized, mixed minerals and secondary sulphides.

Production of copper and molybdenum concentrates process:
Crushing / grinding -> flotation / dewatering / draining -> copper concentrate and molybdenum concentrate.

Production of refined copper:
Dump-leaching -> SX-EW -> Refined copper.


Production:

CommodityProductUnits20202019
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Operational Metrics:

Metrics2020
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Corporate Filings & Presentations:

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Press Release 2014
Other 2013
Press Release 2013
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News:

NewsDate
Agreement Reached on Acquisition of Full Rights and Interests in the Caserones Copper Mine November 9, 2020

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