Minerals Americas | BHP
Escondida (Chile) BHP owns 57.5 per cent of, and operates, the Escondida mine which is a leading producer of copper. Escondida, located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, is a copper porphyry deposit that also produces gold and silver. Escondida’s two pits feed three concentrator plants, as well as two leaching operations (oxide and ...