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Antamina produces different mineral concentrates, primarily copper and zinc, as well as molybdenum, silver and lead, which are secondary by-products. The concentrates are fine mineral dust that has been reduced to microns with a high metallic content.

The main mineralogical products that are contained in the reserve are chalcopyrite, bornite, molybendite. However, given that Antamina is a skarn deposit (a skarn is formed when a fluid rich in metals intrudes a calcareous host rock), it also contains lead ore such as galene and related bismuth minerals such as aikinite, bismuthinite and cosalite.

Our products can be classified as follows:

Copper concentrates
Zinc concentrates
Molybdenum concentrates
Lead concentrates

• The copper and zinc concentrates are transported through a pipeline to the modern Punta Lobitos port in Huarmey, which was built by the company. The port has a filter plant and an innovative storage facility for concentrates with negative pressure and can store just over 160,000 tons of concentrates. It also has a modern shipping dock where the concentrates are filtered, stored and later shipped to different smelters around the world. The molybdenum and lead-bismuth concentrates are filtered and hermetically sealed for transport in trucks from the mine concentrator to the port of Callao.

 
 
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