Fundición Chagres

Fundición Chagres is a copper smelter plant in Valparaíso Region, Chile.[1] The smelter is owned by Anglo American Sur, a joint venture owned in half by Anglo American plc.[2] It lies at 400 meters above sea level and reported to produce 110.1 kTons of copper anodes in 2023.[2] It has a smelting capacity of 560 kTon per year but produced in the mid-2010s 140 kTon copper per year.[3] The smelter captures over 96% of its sulphur emissions.[3] Together with Fundición Altonorte they are two only private-owned copper smelters in Chile, while the remaining five are owned by state-owned Codelco or ENAMI.[3] The smelter operates with three Peirce Smith converter (PSC) and two rotary Slag Cleaning Furnaces (SCF).[3]

The smelter had as of January 2024 a permanent workforce of 323 employees and 230 contractors.[2]

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References

  1. ^ Costabal M., Francisco (2015-06-10). Fundiciones de Cobre en Chile (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). SONAMI. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
  2. ^ a b c "Chagres". Consejo Minero (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  3. ^ a b c d Devia, Manuel; Parra, Roberto; Queirolo, Claudio; Sánchez, Mario; Wilkomirsky, Igor (2019). "Copper smelting and converting: past and present Chilean developments". Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy. 128 (1–2): 108–116. Bibcode:2019MPEM..128..108D. doi:10.1080/25726641.2018.1542050.

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