Punta Totoralillo

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Punta Totoralillo
Punta Totoralillo
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Punta Totoralillo
Location in Chile
Location
Country Chile
Coordinates 26°51′15.99″S70°48′56.37″W / 26.8544417°S 70.8156583°W / -26.8544417; -70.8156583
Details
Owned by Compañía Minera del Pacífico
Land area267.75 ha [1]

Punta Totoralillo is a major industrial port for export of mining products in Chile's Atacama Region that serves multiple mines. The port lies 25 km north of the port city of Caldera [1] and serves the iron mine of Cerro Negro Norte [2] and receives iron ore concentrate (>66% Fe) from Planta Magnetita through a 120 km-long buried pipeline. [3] From Cerro Negro Norte the port receives ore from a 82 km long pipeline. [4] Planta Magnetita in turn processes the tailings of the copper mine of Candelaria and some of the iron ore of Los Colorados. [3] [5] In 2017 an agreement was signed for the copper mine of Caserones to start export its products from Punta Totoralillo. [6] [7]

The port is owned by Compañía Minera del Pacífico. [8] Its construction begun in 2006 and the first ores were shipped from it in 2008. [8] [1] In 2011 the port was approved by authorities to carry out modifications allowing it receive ore from third parties like Bellavista mine of Santa Fe Mining. [9] [10] The port was closed from December 2011 to April 2012 as result of an industrial fire. [11]

Punta Totoralillo lies in an area of cold desert climate. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Inician construcción de puerto minero Punta Totoralillo". Minería Chilena (in Spanish). 2006-02-10. Retrieved 2025-08-19.
  2. ↑ "Iron Market". CMP . Retrieved 2025-05-14.
  3. 1 2 "Planta Magnetita". Consejo Minero (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-09.
  4. ↑ "Especial Proyectos Mineros: Cerro Negro Norte, Proyecto Angie y Fundición Hernán Videla Lira". Revista Nueva Minería y Energía (in Spanish). 2025-02-10. Retrieved 2025-08-17.
  5. ↑ "Mina Los Colorados". Consejo Minero (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-05-09.
  6. ↑ "Puerto Punta Totoralillo: Se firma contrato con Caserones". Minería Chilena (in Spanish). 2017-02-07. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  7. ↑ "Modificación del Puerto Totoralillo: Negociaciones de Minera Caserones y CAP rindieron fruto". Revista Nueva Minería y Energía (in Spanish). 2017-02-17. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  8. 1 2 "Puerto Punta Totoralillo [Caldera, Chile]". hal.science. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
  9. ↑ "CMP logra aprobación para cancha de acopio temporal en puerto Punta Totoralillo". BNamericas (in Spanish). 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
  10. ↑ "CMP ofrecerá un nuevo servicio en puerto Punta Totoralillo". MundoMaritimo (in Spanish). 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2025-09-21.
  11. ↑ Adaos, Yislem (2012-04-20). "Se reiniciaron las operaciones del puerto Punta Totoralillo". Soy Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-22.
  12. ↑ "Punta Totoralillo, Caldera, Provincia de Copiapó, Región de Atacama, Chile". Mindat . Retrieved 2025-10-22.
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