Wednesday 27 May 2020

30% is copper recovery in CODELCO "División Chuquicamata" (Chile)? This is a "worldwide achievement". Does anyone have less?

From the series of publications 
"So they create a fairy tales for the investor"

"They draw up the necessary documents
and begin to search for the simpleton..."
 CODELCO "División Chuquicamata" (Chile)

Owners:  Codelco (Chile)

Let's count together:
They process  354899 tons per day.
If the plant works 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, the plant’s productivity will be 130 million tons per year.

The copper content in the ore is 0.84 %.
The maximum amount of copper (theoretically possible) that they can extract from their ore is 1088120 tons per year of copper.

CODELCO "División Chuquicamata" has already received 320744 tons of copper in 2018.
30% is copper recovery in CODELCO "División Chuquicamata" (Chile)? This is a "worldwide achievement". Does anyone have less? 

IMHO: Did the plant CODELCO "División Chuquicamata" (Chile) receive 321 thousand tons of copper in concentrate and throw 767  thousand tons of copper into waste?

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
   
  References
  1.  https://www.sernageomin.cl/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Libro_Anuario_2018_.pdf
  2.  https://www.codelco.com/memoria2018/site/docs/20190423/20190423123725/memoria_anual_codelco_2018_95_102_recursos_y_reservas_minerales.pdf
  3.  https://www.codelco.com/produccion-2018/prontus_codelco/2018-05-16/130208.html

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