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Modificación Prospección Minera Salares Norte

Minera Gold Fields Salares Norte SpA — Diego de Almagro · Atacama

Declared investment

US$ 80 M

Dollars of the evaluation year SMA

Approval

2016

RCA 171/2016 · Aprobado

Site

Gold Fields-Salares

4 environmental approvals at this site

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Instrument
Environmental impact declaration (DIA)
Project type
Prospecciones y exploraciones
Company
Minera Gold Fields Salares Norte SpA
Comunas
Diego de Almagro · Atacama
Assessed in
Región de Atacama

Timeline

  1. Jan 28, 2016Submitted for environmental assessment

Enforcement at the site

  • Provisional measures8 · latest in 2024
  • Inspections7 · latest in 2026
  • Sanction proceedings2 · latest in 2021
  • Compliance programmes1 · latest in 2021

These cover the whole site, not this project alone.

Other approvals at Gold Fields-Salares

3 more approvals at the same supervised unit.

ProjectApprovalDeclared investmentSource
Estudio de Impacto Ambiental Proyecto Salares Norte2019RCA 153/2019—SMA
Proyecto Prospección Horizonte2019RCA 91/2019—SMA
Proyecto Prospección Minera Salares Norte Ltda.Jan 31, 2014DIA · RCA 18/2014US$ 20 MSMA

Source: public registers of Chile's environmental regulator (SMA). Investment is the one the holder declared in the environmental assessment, in dollars of that year.