Gabriela Mistral mine

December 1, 2016
Mexico: Second Solar Process Heat Case Study on Copper Mining

Arcon-Sunmark has announced the completion of a second solar-heated copper mine project. In September 2016, the Danish company installed a 6,270 m² collector field (4.4 MW_th) at La Parreña in central Mexico. A 30 September press release said that the solar field would cover 58 %...
November 28, 2016
Chile: Consistent Electrolytic Bath Temperature Control Increases Copper Cathode Quality

Pampa Elvira Solar (PES) operates the largest solar process heat installation worldwide, a 27.5 MWt_h collector field at the Gabriela Mistral mine in Chile. “It´s an every-day, every-hour struggle to harvest the sun and earn our wages, so we may continue the very humble – and much...
November 21, 2016
Solar Process Heat in Chile: “It is essential to use the ESCO model”

The world’s largest process heat installation has recently completed its third year of operation. The 39,000 m² collector field, which went online in October 2013 at Codelco´s Gabriela Mistral mine, is located 100 kilometres south of the town of Calama in Chile´s high central desert....

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