Metallic mining
Adecuación Operacional Spence
Minera Spence S.A. — Antofagasta
Approval
Jan 9, 2025
RCA 2025020013/2025 · Aprobado
Site
Spence
12 environmental approvals at this site
File
- Instrument
- —
- Project type
- Metallic mining
- Company
- Minera Spence S.A.
- Comunas
- Antofagasta
- Assessed in
- Antofagasta
- Coordinates
- -22.6910, -69.2929
- Site in the register: Spence
- Tracked project: Adecuación Operacional Spence
Timeline
- Feb 7, 2023Submitted for environmental assessment
- Jan 9, 2025Environmental approval (RCA)702 days later
Enforcement at the site
- Inspections8 · latest in 2026
These cover the whole site, not this project alone.
Other approvals at Spence
11 more approvals at the same supervised unit.
| Project | Approval | Declared investment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahias de Combustible Spence | 2022RCA 202202001239/2022 | — | SMA |
| Actualización de los Requerimientos de Materiales Asociados a la Construcción Diferida del Depósito de Relaves | 2020RCA 64/2020 | — | SMA |
| Actualización de Manejo de Ripios de Lixiviación - Spence | 2020RCA 53/2020 | — | SMA |
| Minerales Primarios Minera Spence | 2017EIA · RCA 275/2017 | US$ 2,500 M | SMA |
| Optimización Spence | Jun 15, 2011DIA · RCA 112/2011 | US$ 200 M | SMA |
| Modificaciones Menores en Minera Spence | May 10, 2010DIA · RCA 140/2010 | US$ 35 M | SMA |
| Grupos de Generación Eléctrica | 2008RCA 69/2008 | — | SMA |
| Línea de Transmisión Eléctrica Encuentro - Spence | 2004RCA 208/2004 | — | SMA |
| Actualización Proyecto Spence | Feb 5, 2004DIA · RCA 15/2004 | US$ 800 M | SMA |
| Spence | Dec 27, 2002EIA · RCA 308/2002 | US$ 800 M | SMA |
| Exploración Spence | Jun 8, 1998DIA · RCA 39/1998 | US$ 4 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.