Codelco to invest $300 million USD to increase extraction at Radomiro Tomic mine

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SANTIAGO. -  Codelco, the world’s leading copper producer, has submitted a $300 million U.S. dollar-proposal to the Environmental Impact Evaluation System (SEIA in Spanish) to expand its mineral extraction plant at the Rodomiro tomic mine in the north of Chile. 

The Rodomiro Tomic open-pit mine belongs to the company’s largest group of plants, the North Codelco Division.  The division, which also includes the Chuquicamata mine, produced a total of 896,000 tons of copper last year. 

Codelco is planning to build a new system of grinders and conveyor belts at the Rodomiro Tomic mine to transfer sulfur-treated minerals from the plant to a concentration facility near Chuquicamata.

The project plans to work with oxidized as well as sulfur-treated minerals.