Candelaria mine
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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.
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Location: -27.5096, -70.2874, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
2 places
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Candelaria mine ⓘ
copper deposit in Atacama Region -
El Gallo ⓘ
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
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| site | mine | Candelaria mine | gold mine, mine | Wikidata | |
| site | mine | El Gallo | quarry | Wikidata | |