Incorporation of Mining Property - Faena Negreiros
Chile
- Country: Chile
- Industry: Mining
- Location: Tarapacá
- Property: SCM Cosayach Yodo
- Investment: 1 billion
- Term: 2023
- Bidding: Private
- Status: On December 18, 2023, the Environmental Evaluation Service rejected the project. On January 31, 2024, an appeal was filed to attempt to overturn that rejection.
Description:
The Project consists of the incorporation of mining property for its exploitation, which will allow the extension of the useful life of the Negreiros Mining Site, whose objective is the exploitation of caliche and its subsequent processing through heap leaching from where the "rich solution" is obtained and sent through a piping system to the Chemical Plant to obtain a concentrated solution of iodide.