Metallic mining
Adecuación Operacional Faena Minera Caserones
Minera Lumina Copper Chile Ltda. — Atacama
Approval
Jul 21, 2025
RCA 202503001105/2025 · Aprobado
Site
Caserones
8 environmental approvals at this site
File
- Instrument
- —
- Project type
- Metallic mining
- Company
- Minera Lumina Copper Chile Ltda.
- Comunas
- Atacama
- Assessed in
- Atacama
- Coordinates
- -28.1685, -69.5603
- Site in the register: Caserones
Timeline
- Jun 8, 2020Submitted for environmental assessment
- Jul 21, 2025Environmental approval (RCA)1,869 days later
Enforcement at the site
- Inspections11 · latest in 2022
- Sanction proceedings3 · latest in 2021
- Final sanctions2 · latest in 2019
- Provisional measures2 · latest in 2018
- Compliance programmes1 · latest in 2021
These cover the whole site, not this project alone.
Other approvals at Caserones
7 more approvals at the same supervised unit.
| Project | Approval | Declared investment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regularización Torres Línea de Transmisión Eléctrica 2X220 Maitencillo - Caserones | 2014RCA 48/2014 | — | SMA |
| Actualización Mina Caserones | Mar 13, 2014DIA · RCA 57/2014 | US$ 10 M | SMA |
| Modificación Línea de Transmisión 2X220 KV Maitencillo – Caserones Variante Maitencillo Norte | 2012RCA 17/2012 | — | SMA |
| Línea de Transmisión 2X220 KV Maitencillo - Caserones | 2011RCA 151/2011 | — | SMA |
| Proyecto Caserones | Jan 18, 2010EIA · RCA 13/2010 | US$ 1,700 M | SMA |
| Tercer Túnel de Prospección Proyecto Caserones | Dec 31, 2008DIA · RCA 364/2008 | US$ 1.7 M | SMA |
| DIA Sondajes de Prospección y Planta Piloto de Lixiviación. Proyecto Regalito | Feb 14, 2007DIA · RCA 16/2007 | US$ 13.5 M | SMA |
Source: public register of environmental approvals. This register states neither the investment nor the day of the resolution; the location is the site's.