:: Escondida Operations Reviewed

Following the 2002 completion of Escondida Phase IV with the Laguna Seca concentrator, the Escondida Norte and Sulphide Leach (low-grade sulphide ores) will raise the world's largest copper mine's production capacity to 1.4 Mt/y of copper.

The operations are described in the March 2005 issue of Mining Magazine (pps. 6-16).