SANTIAGO, April 18 (Reuters) - Chile's Codelco, the
world's largest copper producer, sees greater synergy with its
Andina mine and Anglo American's neighboring Los
Bronces mine following an environmental permit approval, the
state-owned company's chief executive said on Tuesday.
A committee of Chilean ministers approved the Los Bronces
Integrado environmental permit on Monday, paving the way for a
$3.3 billion extension of the project.
"There are always new synergies, mining has dynamics that
progress as projects advance," Codelco's CEO Andre Sougarret
told reporters after a panel at the World Copper Conference in
Santiago.
"We are confident that this will generate a positive future
for both operations," he added.
Codelco is a shareholder in Anglo American Sur, which owns
Los Bronces.
Conditional measures for the approval of Los Bronces
Integrado include a joint study with Codelco's Andina mine on
monitoring particulate matter emissions.
"We have been working on it," Sougarret said in regards to
the monitoring, but did not provide details.
(Reporting by Fabian Andrés Cambero; Writing by Alexander
Villegas
Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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