Chilean court temporarily lifts BHP’s Cerro Colorado water extraction ban
Antofagasta’s environmental court has temporarily lifted a ruling that halted water extraction for BHP’s Cerro Colorado copper mine in northern Chile’s Tarapacá region.
The Australian giant will have 90 days to get environmental approval for its operational continuity.
On Tuesday afternoon, the court ordered environmental evaluation service SEA to conclude the environmental evaluation of the Cerro Colorado operational continuity project as soon as possible. It also authorized the miner to extract 54l/s of water from the Lagunillas aquifer for productive activities for the next 90 days.
"Once this period is over, if the project does not get a favorable environmental rating, the mining company will not be able to continue extracting water,” a court release read.
The court’s previous ruling said that water extraction must stop for 90 days from October 1 to avoid damage to the Lagunillas aquifer. The mine currently extracts 108l/s from the aquifer.
Earlier this year, the court also ordered BHP to submit a new environmental evaluation for the expansion of Cerro Colorado’s waste deposit.
Cerro Colorado produced 68,900t of copper last year.
Photo credit: Antofagasta's environmental court
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