The Zaldívar copper mine is a 50/50 joint venture with Antofagasta Plc, the operator of the mine. It's located in the Andean Precordillera in Region II of northern Chile, approximately 1,400 kilometers north of Santiago and 196 kilometers southeast of the port city of Antofagasta. Join us Job Listings. Location.

Zaldívar is an open-pit, heap-leach copper mine which produces copper cathodes using the solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) process. The mine is 3,000 metres above sea level, approximately 1,400 km north of Santiago and 175 km south-east of the city of Antofagasta. Visit the Zaldívar website for more details

 — Minera Spence produces copper cathodes through its mining operations conducted on an open pit and the treatment of minerals in the plant located in the mine site which includes bacterial leaching, solvent extraction, and electro winning. Cathodes are transported by train to the Mejillones port where they are shipped for delivery to customers.

 — A union representing workers at BHP Group's ndida and Spence copper mines in Chile has called for a strike vote among its members after contract negotiations stalled, the union's president ...

 — Unionised workers at BHP's (BLT.L) (BHP.AX) Spence copper mine in northern Chile agreed on Monday to a new collective labour contract, the company and the union said. The deal comes as the Anglo ...

 — BHP Billiton Limited BHP has agreed to sell its smallest copper mine - Cerro Colorado in Chile ... mine produced 65,000 ton of copper cathode in fiscal 2017. ... Spence mine produced 189,600 tons ...

A joint venture involving Fluor has secured a contract for BHP's Spence Growth Option (SGO) project at the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile. September 27, 2017. Share Copy Link; Share on X ... produced 174,000t of copper cathode during the previous fiscal year, using oxide and sulphide ore treatment through leaching, solvent ...

 — BHP CEO Mike Henry led the opening of Spence's new copper concentrator plant today. ... more than 12,000 workers were employed and it was the only mining project in Chile that did not stop …

 — BHP Billiton expects this will extend the mine life by more than 50 years. BHP Billiton CEO, Andrew Mackenzie, says the SGO project supports BHP Billiton's strategy to deliver near-term, valuable copper production.. In the first 10 years of operation, incremental production from SGO will be approximately 185 ktpa of payable copper in …

 — BHP's milestone comes on the heels of the company completing at $2.5 billion expansion of Spence. The project included the construction of a concentrator plant to increase production and extend ...

 — BHP's (ASX, LON, NYSE: BHP) Spence copper mine in Chile has celebrated three months of being the company's first fully autonomous operation, a status reached …

BHP is one of the world's largest mining companies, with operations across the globe. BHP Billiton's Spence copper cathode project is in the Atacama Desert in the North of Chile. The open-pit copper mine is located 1,700 meters above sea level and has both oxides and sulphides collected and processed in separate campaigns.

 — Collahuasi (44%) is a large-scale copper mine in northern Chile, producing copper concentrates. View more; ... View more; Lomas Bayas Chile. Our Lomas Bayas open-pit copper mine is located in …

 — BHP Billiton's Spence copper cathode project is located 1,700m above sea level in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, close to the mining town of Sierra Gorda, 50km south west of Calama and …

 — Mining giant BHP (ASX:BHP) greenlighted Thursday a long-awaited $2.46 billion expansion of its Spence copper mine in Chile, which will add another 50 years to the operation's productive life.

 — A union of remote workers for BHP's ndida and Spence copper mines in Chile walked off the job early on Thursday after efforts to ink a labor contract deal with the company's management fell ...

 — BHP's $52 million infrastructure project to expand the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile, also known as the Spence Growth Option (SGO), will extend the service life of the mine by approximately 50 years. The SGO project upgraded the mine pit, the mine's waste dump, the concentrator plant and the powder magazine. Products …

BHP's $52 million infrastructure project to expand the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile, also known as the Spence Growth Option (SGO), will extend the service life of the mine by approximately 50 years. The SGO project upgraded the mine pit, the mine's waste dump, the concentrator plant and the powder magazine. In particular ...

 — Spence is BHP's second-largest deposit in Chile after ndida, the world's biggest copper operation. (Image courtesy of BHP.) BHP (ASX, LON, NYSE: BHP) plans to ramp up work at the ongoing ...

 — BHP also owns the Spence and Cerro Colorado mines as part of its Pampa Norte operations. 03. Anglo American. Company: Anglo American HQ: London, England Average annual tonnage: 0.83 million …

 — Located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, the Cerro Colorado mine is one of two copper mining projects operated by the Anglo-Australian miner in the Pampa Norte division. Last year, copper cathode production from the Cerro Colorado mine stood at 65,000t, while production for the previous year was 77,000t.

 — Futures prices for copper metal for delivery in July was up 0.51%, at $4.52 ($9,944 per tonne) on Wednesday afternoon on the Comex market in New York.

 — In 2013, BHP and Rio Tinto began building a $3.4bn desalination plant at ndida mine, the largest copper operation in the world.The initiative was followed by Lundin Mining's plant at its ...

 — BHP Billiton Group approved capital expenditure of US$2.46 billion for the expansion of its Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile, which will extend the mine life by more than 50 years. ... The current copper cathode stream will continue until 2025, the company noted.

Chile is located such that shipment of copper cathode to all of the consuming regions of the world is possible and economical. It is anticipated that copper cathode produced from the Spence Project will be shipped to fabricators of copper, such as wire, rod and tube manufacturers, in Asia, Europe, North and South America.

The importance of large mining development projects goes beyond production figures. Interviewing companies throughout the whole value chain for this report, the opportunities that projects such as Teck Resources' Quebrada Blanca Phase 2 (QB2) or Antofagasta's INCO development represent to Chile's vast ecosystem of suppliers and the thousands …

 — Spence is a copper open pit operation located in Antofagasta Region, northern Chile, and BHP told IM that the plan envisages the commissioning of five autonomous drills, which will gradually be incorporated into the operation in the coming months. In the future, it is expected that of Spence's drill fleet will be operate …

 — The company has confirmed that it will commit up to $2.46bn to extend the life of mine at the Spence coppern mine in Northern Chile, by more than 50 years. The Spence Growth Operation (SGO), "supports BHP's strategy to deliver near-term, valuable copper production," says BHP Chief Executive Officer Andrew Mackenzie.

 — Mining giant BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) can go ahead with a $2.5 billion expansion of its Spence copper mine, in Chile's Atacama desert, after the country's environmental regulator (SEA) unanimously ...

 — A joint venture involving Fluor has secured a contract for BHP's Spence Growth Option (SGO) project at the Spence open-cut copper mine in northern Chile. September 26, 2017. Share Copy Link; Share on X ... produced 174,000t of copper cathode during the previous fiscal year, using oxide and sulphide ore treatment through leaching, …