Chile's Sierra Gorda Mine to Spend $19 Million for Environmental Fixes

摘要

Chile approved a plan by the operators of Sierra Gorda open-pit copper mine in the Atacama Desert to spend $19 million on cleanup after the mine was charged with violating its environmental license. Sierra Gorda SCM submitted the plan after Chile's environmental regulator, Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente, charged the company in March with nine breaches of its environmental licenses, including failure to control atmospheric dust emissions and unauthorized operation of the tailings storage facility.