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Alto Chicama - Peru
Alto Chicama - Peru
Alto Chicama is located in the Andes Mountains in northern Peru at an altitude of 4,200 masl. It is 175km NNW of Barrick Gold’s Pierina gold project which SNC-Lavalin had previously completed the EPCM contract on behalf of Barrick Gold.
Annual gold production target was 540,000 oz/y over an initial 10-year period. Mining is via an 80,000 t/d open pit (ore and waste) followed by 42,000 tpd two stage crushing conventional heap leaching, a closed loop, zero discharge Merrill-Crowe process plant and a gold refinery producing gold bullion.
The project also included the rehabilitation of a 70 km long access road from Otuzco to the project site.
SNC-Lavalin carried out the feasibility study for this proposed development and was subsequently awarded the EPCM contract by Barrick Gold to develop the project.