Planta de Pellets

28°28′50.18″S 71°14′47.69″W / 28.4806056°S 71.2465806°W / -28.4806056; -71.2465806 Planta de Pellets is a mineral processing and pellet-producing plant owned by Compañía Minera del Pacífico (CMP) in Huasco, Atacama Region, Chile. The plant processes iron ore from the mine of Los Colorados in the Chilean Iron Belt.[1] It produces annually 4.5 million metric tons of pellets.[1] The magnetite ore arrives to the plant by train and the leaves it by sea through the adjoining port of Puerto Guacolda II.[1]

The plant was launched on May 15, 1978 and had then a maximum capacity to produce 3.5 million tons of pellets.[1][2] For a while it ranked as the second largest pellet plant of its type in the world.[3] In its early years it had over 3000 employees and a substantial part of its workers and engineers were either Japanese from Kobe Steel or American from McKee Worldwide.[3][2] Its establishment allowed for the mine of El Algarrobo to remain operational for several years.[3]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d "Planta Pellets". Consejo Minero (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-09.
  2. ^ a b Millán 1999, p. 163.
  3. ^ a b c "Planta de Pellets de CMP en Huasco cumplió 45 años delineando nuevos desafíos". Revista Minera Crisol (in Spanish). 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
Bibliography
  • Millán, Augusto (1999). Historia de la minería del hierro en Chile (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria. ISBN 956-11-1499-2.
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