| |controlled. | | | | | Guayacan smelter | |Formerly shipped | | |matte to England. | | | Chile | 6 mines with smelters |Locally owned |Shipped to big | |mines |smelters or | | |exported. | | | | Great numbers of mines |Locally owned |Shipped to big | |mines |smelters or | | |exported. | | | |GRAND TOTAL | | | | | | Expected output 1918-1919| | | | | | | | -------+---------------------------+--------------+------------------ TABLE 43.--OUTPUT, RESERVES, AND LIFE OF THREE AMERICAN-OWNED COPPER MINES IN CHILE -----------------+--------------+-----------+--------------- | Output, First| Ore | Life at Company | six months of| reserves |present output, |1918, (pounds)| (tons) | (years) -----------------+--------------+-----------+--------------- Chile | 50,000,000 |350,000,000| 200 Braden Copper Co.| 36,000,000 |150,000,000| 125 Andes Copper Co. | non-producing| 50,000,000|Work suspended | (capacity | | for present | 24,000,000)| | -----------------+--------------+-----------+--------------- The Caldera and Carrizal custom smelters of the American Smelting & Refining Co. treat ores shipped from various smaller mines. The Carrizal plant has been closed. Two chief properties are tributary to this plant,--the Carrizal Alto and the Astilla mines. A large number of properties are tributary to the Caldera plant, among them: Dulcinea, Flamenco, Morado, San Juan, El Gallo, etc. Throughout northern Chile there are a great many small copper mines. From the Braden property east of Valparaiso to the Chili Copper Co., southeast of Iquique, the entire country seems to be unusually rich in copper. There are five important Chilean mines controlled by _French or British capital_. See Table 42. All are vein mines with no considerable tonnage of developed ore reserves, and the combined output is nearly 50,000,000 pounds of copper a year (a considerable part being from custom ore shipped by small mines) in the form of blister or matte. This production is normally shipped to France or England.