On Friday, August 5, the Mining Minister, the Mining Seremi and the Presidential Delegate, along with ENAMI upper management, visited Minera Tres Valles’ site in Quilmenco, Salamanca.

On Friday, August 5, the Mining Minister, the Mining Seremi and the Presidential Delegate, along with ENAMI upper management, visited Minera Tres Valles’ site in Quilmenco, Salamanca.

Expressing her concern about the standstill of operations, the Mining Minister took a tour of Minera Tres Valles’ facilities, where the financial situation of the Company has forced the idling of its Plant’s purchasing power, which received about 25,000 tons of high-grade ore from third parties per month, mainly from the Choapa province but arriving from as far as the Metropolitan region.

During her tour, the Minister participated in the provincial mining roundtable discussions with members of Parliament from the Coquimbo region and the Mayors of Illapel and Salamanca.

In this opportunity, the miners from the province expressed their main concerns to the Minister and ENAMI executives, the most important being the detention of the Minera Tres Valles’ Plant purchasing power, which received about 80% of the copper ore in the province.

It is important to point out that Minera Tres Valles offers quite beneficial purchase conditions for third parties who sell their ore to the Company, highlighting among these the payment of ore with total copper grades starting from 0.5% CuT as well as the purchase of mixed ore, where oxide minerals are mixed with secondary sulfides (mainly chalcocite)