Metso delivering comminution and material handling equipment in Chile

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Metso has been awarded with an order to supply crushing, comminution and material handling equipment for the first stage of Codelco’s El Teniente copper mine expansion project located in Cachapoal Province in central Chile. The order was booked in Metso’s first-quarter 2019 orders received. El Teniente is the world’s largest underground copper mine as well as the largest operation of the Chilean state-owned copper mining company Codelco. The expansion project called El Teniente New Mine Level is expected to add 50 years to the life of the mine; the start-up of the first stage is in 2023. Once completed, the full expansion will allow El Teniente to maintain its current output of approximately 450,000 tonnes of refined copper per year.