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.

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gold mine, Chile, 

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Location: -27.5096, -70.2874, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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  Candelaria mine ⓘ
  copper deposit in Atacama Region

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  El Gallo ⓘ
  

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
site	mine		Candelaria mine	gold mine, mine	Wikidata
site	mine		El Gallo	quarry	Wikidata