Project Introduction
Investor: The project is invested and operated by CRCC Tongguan Investment Co., Ltd., a joint venture established by Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co., Ltd. and China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) with a capital contribution ratio of 7:3.
Construction and Commissioning: Construction started in December 2015, and official production began in July 2019.
Project Scale and Reserves (Phase I):
- Total investment: 1.89 billion US dollars
- Designed mining and processing capacity: 20 million tons of ore per annum, 60,000 tons per day
- After reaching full capacity: annual output of 354,000 tons of copper concentrate, containing 96,000 tons of copper metal
- Service life: 30 years
Resource Reserves: CRCC Tongguan Investment owns four copper deposits in Ecuador, among which Mirador Copper Mine is one. The total resources of the four deposits amount to approximately 11 million tons of copper metal, with considerable potential for resource expansion.
Project Achievements
- Renovation of the rubber discharge liners and curved liners for the Φ10.97m×5.4m SAG mill has been completed.
- All 28 slurry pumps in the concentrator are NAIPU slurry pumps.
