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Vizcachitas ready to jump into copper pipeline

The Rocin creek sends a flash of colour cutting through the arid, dusty landscape to the north of capital Santiago in the interior of Chile’s Region V where Los Andes Copper has one of the most advanced copper projects of scale held by a junior, Vizcachitas. At relatively low elevation of 2000m above sea level, production grade mineralisation and neighbours such as Anglo American’s Los Bronces copper mine, it is one of the few candidates for development as the world seeks more copper to meet the demand of the energy transition.

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The eastern pit wall drill target at Los Andes Copper's Vizcachitas in Chile

In February, Los Andes published a prefeasibility study (PFS), which featured a 136,000tpd operation to produce 183,000tpa of copper, 11Mlbpa of molybdenum and 1.

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