Mitsui to build BHP desalination plant in Chile

13th October 2017

By: Reuters

  

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SANTIAGO – Japan's Mitsui & Co plans to build a desalination plant for BHP Billiton's Spence copper mine in Chile, it said on Thursday.

Mitsui is building the plant through a joint operation with Técnicas de Desalinazación de Aguas, it said in a statement.

Reuters reported on August 10 that a number of other companies including a consortium of Canada's Brookfield Asset Management and Spain's Acciona had also bid on the $800-million project, but BHP had selected the Mitsui group to go ahead with bilateral negotiations, sources said.

To supply the water-intensive process of copper mining without coming into conflict with local communities, miners in the world's top copper producer have increasingly looked to the Pacific Ocean for their needs.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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