Chile's Caserones copper mine close to reach full capacity after weather forced 3-week shutdown
Caserones had to halt operations for three weeks following a blackout caused by heavy snow and rain in May.
Chile’s Caserones, a copper mine that has suffered a series of technical problems in its ramp-up phase and which belongs to Japan's top smelter, JX Nippon Mining & Metals, Mitsui Mining and Mitsui & Co., is now running at 90% capacity, a senior mine executive said Thursday.
The mine, which has been behind schedule ever since it began producing in May 2014, had to halt operations for three weeks following a blackout caused by heavy snow and rain in May. It’s been trying to get back on track since then and Mitsui & Co CFO Keigo Matsubara told Reuters the operations was already back to its January-March levels.
Source: Mining.com
