Client
Minera Lumina Copper Chile (MLCC)
Location
Andes Mountains of Central Chile
Minera Lumina Caserones Copper Project
Fluor performed engineering, procurement, and construction management services for facilities, utilities and offsites, and mine-related infrastructure at the Caserones Copper project in Chile. The Caserones mine produces copper concentrate, copper cathodes and molybdenum concentrate from an open mine operation.
The mine is approximately 4,000 meters above sea level (masl), and during construction Fluor took every precaution to monitor the effects of the altitude and cold environment on workers.
The Fluor and Caserones project team achieved its first milestone in March 2013, when the solvent extraction/electrowinning (SX/EW) plant produced its first copper electrode.
As a result, the SX/EW plant is now operational, and afterwards the team refocused its energy on the next major goal, which was to place the first ton of ore into the future concentrator by the end of 2013, marking the completion of a fully functioning and operating SX/EW and concentrator plant.
In October of 2013 the project achieved another milestone, 7 million hours worked without a lost time incident per OSHA regulations.
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