Chuquicamata Mine (Codelco), Chile

Chuquicamata is an opencast copper mine, where a relatively poor copper ore is mined in impressive huge amounts. Modern mining and smelting technology allows the usage of such depostits at unrivaled low costs. The ore contains only between 1,13% and 1,18% metals, most of it copper, but also molybdenum and selenium in a very low […]

Komayestan Dam, I.R. of Iran

Project Name: Komayestan Dam Purpose of the project: Irrigation Project location: IRAN – Khorasan- Sabzevar Client: Khorasan Regional Water Authority Contractor: Kahar –e- Khorasan CO. Dam Type: Concrete gravity dam Height above foundation: 34.5 m Crest length: 835 m Capacity of the Reservoir: 1,200,000 m3 End of construction: February 2002

Bidvaz Esfarayen Dam, Islamic Republic of IRAN

Project Name: Bidvaz Esfarayen Dam Purpose of the project: Agricolture & Irrigation Project location: Khorasan- Esfarayen Client: Khorasan Regional Water Authority Contractor: Gostaresh Nosazi Sanayee Iran CO. Dam Type: Earth Fill Dam With Clay Core Height above foundation: 60 (m) Crest level (above sea level): 1534 Crest length: 113 (m) End of construction: June 2005

Karahnjukar Hydroelectric Project, Iceland

The Kárahnjúkar dam is a concrete-faced rock fill dam (CFRD) type with a maximum height of 193m and, when completed it will be the highest of its kind in Europe and among the highest in the world. When full the level of the 57km2 the Hálslón storage reservoir will reach the height of 625m above […]

Mazar hydroelectric project, Ecuador

The Mazar hydroelectric power plant site is located in the south-eastern part of Ecuador and consists of the 2nd phase of the exploitation of the potential energy of the middle course of the Río Paute. The Mazar hydroelectric power project will be constructed immediately upstream of the Amaluza reservoir and will have a capacity of […]