The Cia Minera Santa Barbara mines are located in Northern Chile in Region 3, seven kilometres south west of Vallenar (population 20,000) and 55 kilometres from the commercial port of Huasco Bay. The mines and tenements cover an area in excess of 7,400 hectares.
In addition there are two major tenements located near the mine of Las Colorodos, with some 3,000 hectares.
The nine mines have a JORC proven and probable resource of at least 53 million tonnes of iron ore. There is no overburden to remove from the alluvial mines. The four major mines, Japonesa, Japonesita, Mirador and Mariposa are within two kilometres of the crushing and processing plant. Several mine sites were operational and productive until the early 1970's - currently 2.2 million tonnes of iron ore fines are stockpiled at the Japonesa site and a further 0.8 million tonnes at Mirador. In previous times they extracted the lump iron ore and left the iron ore fines behind, which created these stockpiles.
From http://www.ady.com.au/admiralty_resources_ciaminera_resource.php
P.S. Biggest anomalies have not yet been JORC'd yet...
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