Bibliographic citations
Zuñiga, R., (2013). Selección técnica de alternativas de movimiento de chancadores inpit a una ubicación Expit en rajo escondida - proyecto Escondida Ore Access (EOA) [Tesis, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/1087
Zuñiga, R., Selección técnica de alternativas de movimiento de chancadores inpit a una ubicación Expit en rajo escondida - proyecto Escondida Ore Access (EOA) [Tesis]. : Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería; 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14076/1087
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title = "Selección técnica de alternativas de movimiento de chancadores inpit a una ubicación Expit en rajo escondida - proyecto Escondida Ore Access (EOA)",
author = "Zuñiga Chambi, Ramiro Israel",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería",
year = "2013"
}
The EOA project is part of the ongoing continuous Escondida operation and is designed to maintain operational ore faces available to feed to the existing two concentrators. Should this project not proceed then mining more costly, lower grade ore would be the only option available, thus reducing copper production and the life of mine. The EOA Project allows the earlier availability of high grade ores, changes the sequence and cut-off grade strategy that will permit ore exploitation at a high copper price. The key elements to support the business case are: • To provide a feed with better grades in the early years, once the decision to remove the crushers from the pit it is made. • The Project produces a positive NPV. • The Project improves the operational flexibility of Escondida. • Alignment with the strategic objectives of the company. On this particular project, the benefit achieved is due to the strategy of anticipating higher grades and reducing capital costs in time. In this sense, the option of moving the crushers out of the pit is, finally, more economically attractive than sequential movements of the crushers. During Selection Study the alternatives studied reduced for various reasons until alternatives 3, 4, 10 and 11 were left for final detailed economic analysis. Detailed mining plans were developed for each alternative to evaluate them financially and technically. The optimized without alternative is a “Do Nothing” case, that implies to continue with the current mine without capital investment and it is valuated against alternatives 3, 4, 10 and 11. Comparing the incremental NPV among the alternatives under assessment, alternative 11 exhibited the highest NPV, lower risk and greater operational flexibility. Based on that, it was chosen as the Go-Forward alternative to be optimized in Definition Phase Study and subsequently executed. The ExPit location for crushers is out of the final pit limit defined by LoA11. Nevertheless, the deep drilling program at the East zone of Escondida pit has revealed the presence of exploitable resources at depth. Condemnation drilling was carried out in that area and confirms that those resources wouldn’t be exploited in at least 30 years. It is valid to think that infrastructure location in Escondida is temporary due to changes on prices, costs and new resources discovery that might change the final pit limits.
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