EXPERIENCING THE SAFETY AND PRODUCTIVITY BENEFITS OF REAL TIME SLOPE MONITORING “By using an SSR to monitor slope stability, we have considerably reduced the risk associated with working in unstable areas. ” Jorge E. Pérez Castañeda, Slope Control Engineer, Geotechnical Superintendence. Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM’s copper mine is situated in northern Chile, about 180km southeast of the port of Iquique, at an altitude of 4,000m. The Collahuasi Mine deposit has an annual production capacity of 400,000 tonnes of copper in concentrate and 60,000 tonnes of copper cathode. There are three main orebodies: Ujina, Rosario and Huinquintipa. The mine has one of the world’s largest known copper reserves at 5.19 billion tonnes. “Safety is the highest priority to Collahuasi

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