Antofagasta secures $2.5bn for Centinela expansion project
Chile-based copper miner Antofagasta on Tuesday announced $2.5-billion of financing for its Centinela Second Concentrator project, which will add 144 000 t/y of copper production at the mine.
The London-listed company has signed definitive agreements with a group of international lenders, including the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Export Development Canada, the Export-Import Bank of Korea and several commercial banks for the term loan.