COUNTRY: PROJECT TYPE: Chile Hydrogeological control SECTOR: MAIN PRODUCT: Mining Loadsensing | The Wireless Monitoring System SUCCESS STORY MONITORING WATER WELLS AROUND A MINE IN CHILE++ 2 SUCCESS STORY | Monitoring water wells around a mine in Chile++ Challenge Located at 3,000m above sea level in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the mining and hydrometallurgical operation of this mine is 4km away from the mine and smelter. In the beginning of the mining operations, the initial target capacity was 150,000t/y of copper cathodes but optimization during construction raised the rating to 180,000t/y by the commissioning date. Traditionally, piezometers around the pit have been monitored by isolated standalone dataloggers which store information o

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