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Collahuasi Copper Mine Chile

Client	Cia. Minera Doña Ines de Collahuasi
Project	Ujina Rosario Transition Project
Capacity	500,000t/yr of copper
Background	Collahuasi copper mine is situated in northern Chile, about 180km southeast of the port of Iquique, at an altitude of 4,000m. The mine was commissioned in April 1999. During 2004, the project partners completed a $584 million expansion programme at the mine. The project increases Collahuasi’s concentrator throughput capacity to 110,000 tonnes per day from 60,000 tonnes per day, giving the mine a long-term capacity of 500,000t/yr of copper.
Consultant	Bechtel Chile Ltda (Owner's Engineer)
Scope of ABB	Design, manufacture, erection supervision, testing and commissioning of: · One Gearless Mill Drive 21 MW @ 9.04 rpm for the SAG mill (40´) · Two Gearless Mill Drive 15.5 MW @ 11.42 rpm for Ball mills (26’) · Harmonic Filter & Power Factor Compensation plant
Award of contract	2001
Start of Operation	2004

Last edited 2005-06-27

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