Taking El Teniente to the next level

MM’s Paul Harris looks at the challenges Codelco is facing as it pushes ever deeper at the new mine level project

An overview of El Teniente

31 May 2017
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The El Teniente underground copper mine near Rancagua, has been a workhorse for Chile’s state copper company Codelco for more than a century and produced 475,000t of fine copper in 2016.

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