Freeport to seek permit for $7.5bn mine expansion, Chilean media reports

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    "excerpt": "Freeport to seek permit for $7.5bn mine expansion, Chilean media reports.\n\n19th March 2026\n\nFont size: - +\n\nSANTIAGO - US miner Freeport-McMoRan has begun the process of obtaining an environmental permit for a $7.5-billion expansion of its El Abra copper mine in Chile, the company said on Thursday.\n\nThe project is a joint venture between the company and Chilean state-owned copper giant Codelco.\n\n\"This is a very significant project, not only in terms of the investment, but also in terms of the additional production,\" the firm's manager in Chile Mario Larenas told reporters at a press conference.\n\nThe expansion aims to increase the mine's production to approximately 300 000 metric tons of copper per year, he added.\n\nThe executive declined to comment on a question over Codelco's capacity to finance its share of the project.\n\nCHILEAN GOVERNMENT WELCOMES EXPANSION\n\nFreeport announced its intended El Abra expansion, which it had postponed for years, in mid-2024. The project involves the construction of a concentrator and a desalination plant, and is expected to start operations in the coming decade.\n\nFreeport owns 51% of El Abra, which produced 91 400 tons of copper in 2025, with the remainder held by Codelco.\n\nChile's Mining Minister Daniel Mas welcomed Freeport's decision, saying the company expects the permit process to take about three years and emphasizing that companies must...",
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