Collahuasi partner Shell Petroleum will sell its one-third interest in the copper deposit in Chile to Falconbridge (TSE) and Minorco for about US$19 million.
The two partners will each end up holding a half interest. Situated in northern Chile at an altitude of 4,500 metres above sea level, Collahuasi is one of the largest undeveloped copper resources in the world. A 1993 prefeasibility study pegs geological reserves, in two separate deposits, at nearly 2 billion tonnes grading 0.9% copper.
The deposits, which will be mined via open pit, are expected to yield some 300,000 tonnes of copper concentrate and about 50,000 tonnes of copper cathode per year.
A feasibility study is due in the second quarter.
The Northern Miner
Volume 81 Number 1
March 6, 1995
B SECTION — EXPLORATION ’95
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