MINING inland from a port area and power station currently under construction at Punta Rincon . The power station , though coal-fuelled , uses excellent ‘ Clean Coal ’ technology . It has a single 125-metre twin-flue chimney , and the design incorporates flue gas desulphurisation ( FGD ), bag houses , and selective catalytic reduction ( SCR ) filtration to clean the flue gas .
The Punta Rincon port has been operational since the first ball mill was delivered on the 23rd of August . Its main function will be to receive coal for the power station and export copper concentrate . FQM is now working on the jetty construction which will house the conveying system to load and unload the ships .
Up at the mine things look rather different . The topography is extremely hilly in an area and it gets a lot of rain . In 2014 , 7.2 metres of
$ 1.3bn
The cost of the the smelter at Kanshanshi , the largest copper mine in Africa
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