"With low copper content ore bodies (around 0.3%) in South America, our intense flotation technology is key to improving recoveries at high throughputs and maintaining margins."
"We are working so that, starting in 2024, production begins its long-term growth trajectory, progressively increasing until reaching the level of 1.7 million t/y by 2030."
PRESIDENT ANDEAN REGION, TECHINT INGENIERÍA Y CONSTRUCCIÓN
"Currently our Chile team has over 6,000 people, out of 21,000 people for Techint Engineering and Construction globally, and this shows the current strength of Chile’s operations."
"The next stage of our growth story has begun. In Q1 2024, we started the construction of the Centinela Second Concentrator Project, which will add a further 170,000 t/y of copper-equivalent production."
"We expect progressively stronger copper production from Quebrada Blanca in each quarter throughout the rest of the year as we ramp up to full capacity by year-end."
"2023 was a very good year for Glencore's operations in Chile. It was a year of great milestones, considering some of the events that took place at our sites."
MACIG 2025 - Mining in Africa Country Investment Guide
It is said that mining is a patient industry. Current demand projections are not. Demand for minerals deemed ‘critical’ is set to increase almost fourfold by 2030, according to the UN. Demand for nickel, cobalt and lithium is predicted to double, triple and rise ten-fold, respectively, between 2022 and 2050. The world will need to mine more copper between 2018 and 2050 than it has mined throughout history. 2050 is also the deadline to curb emissions before reaching a point of ‘no return.’ The pace of mineral demand and the consequences of not meeting it force the industry to act fast and take more risks. Mining cannot afford to be a patient industry anymore. The scramble for supply drives miners back to geological credentials, and therefore to places like the African Central Copperbelt.