Fundición Chagres

Fundición Chagres is a copper smelter plant in Valparaíso Region, Chile. It is owned by Anglo American (51%), Codelco (24.5%) and Mitsubishi (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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