Fundición Chagres is a copper smelter plant in

Valparaíso Region The Valparaíso Region (, ) is one of Chile's 16 Regions of Chile, first order administrative divisions.Valparaíso Region, 2006 With the country's second-highest population of 1,790,219 , and fourth-smallest area of , the region is Chile's sec ...

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. It is owned by Anglo American (51%),

Codelco The National Copper Corporation of Chile (), abbreviated as Codelco, is a Chilean state-owned mining company and the largest copper mining company in the world. It was formed in 1976 from foreign-owned copper companies that were nationalised in 1 ...

(24.5%) and

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(24.5%). It lies at 400 meters above sea level and reported to produce 110.1 kTons of copper anodes in 2023. It has a smelting capacity of 560 kTon per year but produced in the mid-2010s 140 kTon copper per year. The smelter captures over 96% of its sulphur emissions. Together with Fundición Altonorte they are two only private-owned copper smelters in Chile, while the remaining five are owned by state-owned Codelco or ENAMI. The smelter operates with three Peirce Smith converter (PSC) and two rotary Slag Cleaning Furnaces (SCF). The smelter had as of January 2024 a permanent workforce of 323 employees and 230 contractors.

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Chagres Chagres (), once the chief Atlantic port on the isthmus of Panama, is now an abandoned village at the historical site of Fort San Lorenzo (). The fort's ruins and the village site are located about west of Colón, on a promontory overlooking ...

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