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About Compania Contractual

Minera Candelaria is a copper concentrate producer, located in the commune of Tierra Amarilla, a few kilometers south of Copiapó, in the Atacama Region. It is a foreign investment company: Lundin Mining Corporation) and Sumitomo. Towards the west of the town of Tierra Amarilla, the company has an open pit mine that provides copper ore to a concentrator plant with a nominal processing capacity of . tons per day. It also has two underground mines in this sector of the district: Candelaria UG, which exploits an average of . tpd (tons per day) of mineral, and Alcaparrosa, which extracts around . tpd of ore. Both provide mineral to the Candelaria concentrator plant. Towards the east, at its Ojos del Salado site, the company has a third underground mine, called Santos, which produces . tpd of mineral on average, which is sent to the Pedro Aguirre Cerda concentrator plant (PAC). Likewise, the company has a shipping port in Caldera, a city located a few kilometers from Candelaria, from where the concentrates produced are shipped to different destinations. In the same place, the desalination plant that processes seawater is located, and which has a production capacity of liters per second. This water resource is used in the company's different productive activities.