{"id":1168594,"date":"2020-02-28T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1015628"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T23:40:18","slug":"codelco-gets-environmental-permit-to-expand-salvador-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1168594","title":{"rendered":"Codelco gets environmental permit to expand Salvador mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Codelco has received an environmental permit for a $1 billion expansion of its Salvador mine, the state-controlled copper company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codelco.com\/comision-de-evaluacion-ambiental-aprueba-proyecto-rajo-inca-de-codelco\/prontus_codelco\/2020-02-28\/120455.html\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"said (opens in a new tab)\">said<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Rajo Inca project will increase production at Salvador to 90,000 metric tonnes per year of copper, up around 30% from current levels.<\/p>\n<p>Reserves at the underground operation at Salvador are due to run out next year.<\/p>\n<p>Changing the extraction method to open pit mining is therefore urgent as it is the only way to continue operations to extract available resources, Codelco said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> Rajo Inca is one of the six major investment projects Codelco is advancing to bolster production at its aging mines.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We are very satisfied with the speed with which Rajo Inca has advanced. We began prefeasibility studies in 2015 and expect to enter operations in 2021,&#8221; said Codelco CEO Octavio Araneda.<\/p>\n<p>Rajo Inca is one of the six major investment projects Codelco is advancing to bolster production at its aging mines. <\/p>\n<p>A new underground operation at the company&#8217;s Chuquicamata division entered production last year while a new mine level at the underground El Teniente mine will follow in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajo Inca project at Salvador is a $1 billion expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168621,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168594\/revisions\/1168621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}