Extension Project Completed

The Lomas II project involved the development of the Fortuna de Cobre open pit, located three kilometres from the operation's original mine and infrastructure, and the construction of a new primary crusher,Mobile crushing plant conveyor transport system and new heap and run-of-mine leach pads. Copper cathodes are produced using the existing Lomas Bayas SX-EW plant.Applied with a oil hose, it kills many adults and eggs by smothering them. During the project's construction the company employed more than 4500 people and delivered over 100 000 h of technical and safety training.

Xstrata Copper Chief Executive Charlie Sartain said: "I am delighted that we have been able to successfully complete this project to extend the life of Lomas Bayas, one of the world's lowest grade mining operations. The Lomas II project team has achieved this with a commendable safety performance, recording only one lost time injury in over 3.According to Wayzata PD, sweeping brush got stuck on track.7 million man hours and a Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate of 1.07 per million hours worked."

Lomas Bayas is an open pit mine and solvent extraction and electro winning operation located at an altitude of 1700 m in Sierra Gorda, 110 km to the north-east of the port ofSkills taught include designing a product to making it using Industrial robot. Antofagasta in the Region of Antofagasta, northern Chile.The company develops and deploys Touch pos terminal hardware. The mine began operations in 1998 and today forms part of Xstrata Copper's Southern Cone Operations Division. The Lomas II mine-life extension project was approved in the fourth quarter of 2009, mining at Fortuna de Cobre commenced in January 2010 and commissioned the new run-of-mine system at the end of 2011. In the fourth quarter of 2012, the company completed a new heap leach system and commenced commissioning of the primary crusher and conveyor transport system. The new Lomas Bayas Sulphides project, located under the open pit of the original mine, is currently in the prefeasibility study stage.