{"id":838386,"date":"2018-07-10T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=838386"},"modified":"2018-07-10T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:20:14","slug":"antofagasta-announces-first-mine-to-use-100-renewable-energy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=838386","title":{"rendered":"Antofagasta announces first mine to use 100% renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/antofagasta-announces-first-mine-use-100-renewable-energy\/\">Natalie Latuszek<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>On July 6, 2018, Zald\u00edvar signed a new power plant supply agreement with Colb\u00fan, a Chilean electric power utility company. The copper mine will be the first to operate with 100% renewable energy: a combination of hydro, solar, and wind power.<\/p>\n<p>The Copper Mine, located in Northern Chile, is a 50% joint venture between Barrick Gold and Antofagasta since December 2015. Antofagasta&#8217;s official website reports Zald\u00edvar production at 51,700 tonnes in 2017 and forecasts 55,000 to 60,000 tonnes in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The use of 100% renewable energy will begin in July 2020 for a duration of 10 years. Antofagasta estimates to remove approximately 350,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/antofagasta-announces-first-mine-use-100-renewable-energy\/\">Antofagasta announces first mine to use 100% renewable energy<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/antofagasta-announces-first-mine-use-100-renewable-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/antofagasta-announces-first-mine-use-100-renewable-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Antofagasta announces first mine to use 100% renewable energy\">Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Natalie Latuszek On July 6, 2018, Zald\u00edvar signed a new power plant supply agreement with Colb\u00fan, a Chilean electric power utility company. The copper mine will be the first to operate with 100% renewable energy: a combination of hydro, solar, and wind power. The Copper Mine, located in Northern Chile, is a 50% joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838386"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}