The mine is located 2 km north-west of the village of Sierra Gorda in the Antofagasta Province of northern Chile.
[3] Other major milestones of the Copper-Molybdenum mine includes EPCM contracts and respective loan agreements to finance the construction both done on 2012, followed by water pipeline construction in 2013 and finally mine production starting in October 2014.
[5] For the year 2021, the mine was "expected to produce 180,000 t of copper, 5,000 t of molybdenum, 54,000 oz of gold and 1.6 Moz of silver".
[2] In 2024, South32 announced the addition of a fourth line for grinding ore, which is supposed to increase production by 20%.
At that time, the company said the mine had an 782 million tonnes of ore, with 0.44% copper, which should be enough for 16 years.