PRESS INFORMATION Environmental Emergency Spill Copper generates
The incident happened in the sector caused the trouble Panguesillo residents of that David Pavez Torrealba Illapel province.
Through a statement, Minera Los Pelambres reported an environmental emergency caused by the spill of copper concentrate and water to the river Choapa.
Such an event occurred on Saturday, August 1, when the control systems of the pipeline carrying copper concentrate from the plant Chacay to the port of Los Vilos, detected an anomaly at kilometer 37 in the vicinity of the Panguesillo village, district of Salamanca.
The company said the fault was found on a piece of auxiliary piping system, designed to control the flow pressure of copper concentrate, proceeding to activate the contingency plan for such cases and ruled out problems in the host concentrated driving.
According to the statement, the event meant that a portion of the pulp of copper concentrate with water "was taken up in the camera monitoring station, but some seep into the platform of the sector and then to a nearby stream , reaching Choapa riverbed. Estimates indicate that the river would have reached about 3 liters per second for one hour. Importantly, the event when the river flow had Choapa of 4,200 liters per second. "
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