Coordinates: 45°02′05″S 71°56′34″W / 45.03472°S 71.94278°W / -45.03472; -71.94278

El Toqui mine

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El Toqui
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Location
RegionAysén Region
CountryChile
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Production
ProductsCopper, gold, silver, lead
Owner
CompanySociedad Contractual Minera El Toqui

El Toqui mine is a polymetallic zinc-gold mine in Chile. Besides silver and lead are also mined in El Toqui.[1] The mine is owned by Laguna Gold through its wholly owned subsidiary company Sociedad Contractual Minera el Toqui.[2] Laguna Gold purchased the mine from Nyrstar in 2016.[3] Nyrstar had owned the mine since its 2011 purchase of Breakwater Resources which had in turn purchased it from Barrick Gold Corporation in 1997.[4]

The mine is powered by a 4 Mw diesel power plant and a 2 Mw hydroelectric power plant.[1]

As of 2025 the mine was exporting zinc concentrate to Lianyungang in China through the port of Chacabuco in Aysén Fjord.[5]

See also

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  • Cutter Cove, a polymetallic copper-gold-zinc mine near the Strait of Magellan last active in 1974
  • Los Domos, a nearby gold mine project

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