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'''Alumysa''' was a proposed [[Aluminium smelting|aluminium smelter]] to be built in [[Puerto Chacabuco]] in [[Aysén Fjord]], Chile. The project began to be planned in the early 1990s, it presented its [[environmental impact assessment]] in 2001 and was suspended in August 2003.<ref name=cop03>{{Cite news |title=Proyecto para construir planta de aluminio en Aysén fue suspendido |url=https://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/pais/proyecto-para-construir-planta-de-aluminio-en-aysen-fue-suspendido/2003-08-14/200700.html |date=2003-08-14 |access-date=2023-04-18 |work=[[Radio Cooperativa]] |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref name=EyN06/> The project was opposed by [[salmon farm]] companies operating in the area for the water pollution they claimed the Alumysa would produce.<ref name=cop03/> The project was being developed by the Canadian mining company [[Noranda (mining company)|Noranda]].<ref name=cop03/> Alumysa was planned to import [[aluminium oxide]]s to produce 440,000 tons of aluminium annually.<ref name=EyN06>{{Cite news |title=Aluminio: Emblemático proyecto Alumysa fue desechado definitivamente |url=http://www.economiaynegocios.cl/noticias/noticias.asp?id=16038 |date=2006-03-31 |access-date=2023-04-18 |work=Economía y Negocios |publisher=[[El Mercurio]] |language=Spanish|last=Meriches R.|first=Juan}}</ref> Noranda has cited a lack of stable rules as the reason for the withdrawal of the project.<ref name=cop03/> Other proposed reasons for the suspension of the project include that production cost turned out to be higher than originally thought given a rise in the cost of energy and the fact the international aluminium market was by the mid-2000s more competitive with countries in [[Middle East]] and [[Russia]] having constructed aluminium smelters that used cheap energy.<ref name=EyN06/>
==See also==
*[[Fundición Ventanas]], copper smelter in Central Chile
*[[Canadian mining in Latin America and the Caribbean]]
*[[HidroAysén]], a hydropower project in Aysén Region cancelled in 2017
*[[Los Domos]], a proposed gold mine in Aysén Region
==References==
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[[Category:Aluminium smelters]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Aysén Region]]
[[Category:Proposed buildings and structures in Chile]]