Canadian mining company Altiplano Metals (APN) is cleared for construction of its 5,000mt/month El Peñón mill site to support the Farellon Copper-Gold (Cu-Au) mine near La Serena, Chile.
Chilean mining authority SERNAGEOMIM approved APN´s permit on Sep 1.
APN extracted close to 4,020mt of copper and gold ore in July, up 11.5pc from the previous month.