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Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012. This is a list of countries by mined copper production. Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.
Following is a list of minerals that serve as copper ores in the copper mining process: [1] Image Name Formula % Copper when pure Chalcopyrite: CuFeS 2: 34.5 Chalcocite:
Chuquicamata (/ tʃ uː k iː k ə ˈ m ɑː t ə / choo-kee-kə-MAH-tə; referred to as Chuqui for short) is the largest open pit copper mine in terms of excavated volume in the world. [citation needed] It is located in the north of Chile, just outside Calama, at 2,850 m (9,350 ft) above sea level.
Deziwa Mine; Dikulushi mine; Dikuluwe Mine; Etoile mine; Frontier mine; Kabolela mine; Kakanda deposit; Kalakundi MIne; Kalumbwe Myunga Mine; Kalumines; Kamatanda
It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the world. Its 2007 production of 1.483 million tons of the metal was worth US$10.12 billion, [ 1 ] mainly as metal in concentrate, but some as cathode, and was 9.5% of world output and 26% of Chilean production, according to the US Geological Survey's preliminary estimates of 2007 world mine ...
The mine increased production to 100,000 t (110,000 short tons) of ore per day, [11] and in 2006 the mine produced over 418,000 t (461,000 short tons) of copper. [16] The Vancouver, British Columbia-based, Canadian company Amerigo produces both a copper and molybdenum concentrate from El Teniente's tailings. It has been granted the right also ...
The DRC copper belt includes some of the highest-grade copper deposits in the world. In some reserves the grades are above 5%. The ore also has high grades of cobalt and may hold 34% of the world's cobalt reserves. There are large deposits that have yet to be explored using modern technology, so the size of the reserves may be understated.
In 2023, Indonesia was the world's seventh-largest producer of copper globally. [6] Copper, copper ore and concentrates was Indonesia's fifth-largest export in 2023 according to The Observatory of Economic Complexity , worth USD 8.9 billion, [ 12 ] with China and Japan being the largest buyers.