Atlantic Copper
Smelter · Spain
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Atlantic Copper is a smelter in Spain on record for copper. The source lists a capacity of 300 000 metric tons per year (2019).
300 000metric tons per year
Largest recorded annual capacity: Copper (2019). Capacity is not production.
STALE 2022
Type and status
Smelter
Status not recorded in the source.
Largest recorded capacity
300 000metric tons per year
Copper, 2019
Latest recorded production
272 kt
Copper anode, smelter output, 2019
Water stress of the sub-basin
Extremely High (>80%)
Modelled baseline of the place, 2023
Overview
Company profiles for names printed here: Freeport-McMoRan (matched by exact name, or through a subsidiary GLEIF lists; not verified ownership)
Map
- Atlantic Copper: Smelter
- Spain
The ring marks the coordinates the source gives.
Key facts
- Type
- Smelter (listed as: Smelter, Refinery)
- Country
- Spain (ESP)
- Location (lat, lon)
- 37.2277, -6.9494
- Commodities and products, as listed
- Copper cathode, Copper anode
- Status, as listed
- Not recorded in the source
- Owner, as listed
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (100%) (as of 2019)
Supply chain
Where this site sits in the chain: what the record lists, and what else is on record nearby.
Materials on record
- Kind of site
- Smelter
- Commodities and products, as listed
- Copper cathode, Copper anode
In Spain
The atlas has 9 sites on record in Spain.
Country profile: SpainCompare with another site
Sites come from a USGS compilation for Latin America and the Caribbean that describes 2014, the national surveys of Australia (plants, mines, critical-mineral deposits), Canada (mines, smelters, refineries, critical-mineral projects) and Sweden (mines in operation and significant prospects), a 2022 database of coal and metal mines, and mine areas mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (marked as estimated). A deposit or a project is not a mine and is never counted as one. Processing plants in Asia, Africa and Europe are mostly missing. A missing facility means it is not in these sources, not that it does not exist.
Money
Capacity and yearly production as the sources record them. The atlas has no revenue, cost or value figure for a single site.
Annual capacity
As stated by the source, in the source's own unit. Capacity is not production.
| Product | Capacity | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Copper | 300 000metric tons per year | |
| Copper cathode | 286 000metric tons per year |
Production by year
Tonnes, as the database took them from company and agency reports. Years without a reported figure are left out, not filled in.
Copper anode · smelter output 2002–2019, 18 years
| Year | Tonnes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 272 000 | |
| 2018 | 295 300 | |
| 2017 | 283 100 | |
| 2016 | 296 900 | |
| 2015 | 293 100 | |
| 2014 | 294 100 | |
| 2013 | 224 300 | |
| 2012 | 295 200 | |
| 2011 | 253 000 | |
| 2010 | 255 000 | |
| 2009 | 269 000 | |
| 2008 | 259 900 | |
| 2007 | 256 100 | |
| 2006 | 263 700 | |
| 2005 | 284 200 | |
| 2004 | 224 300 | |
| 2003 | 290 300 | |
| 2002 | 298 000 |
Copper cathode · refinery output 2007–2019, 13 years
| Year | Tonnes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 268 300 | |
| 2018 | 283 100 | |
| 2017 | 271 400 | |
| 2016 | 285 800 | |
| 2015 | 284 800 | |
| 2014 | 283 800 | |
| 2013 | 226 000 | |
| 2012 | 274 400 | |
| 2011 | 247 400 | |
| 2010 | 253 000 | |
| 2009 | 256 600 | |
| 2008 | 257 100 | |
| 2007 | 243 600 |
These figures are informational, not financial advice.
Sustainability
Four indicators, the same on every profile. For a single site most of them are properties of the place or the country, and are labelled so.
Carbon
Emissions intensity of the electricity grid of Spain: the country's grid, not this site's.
154gCO2e/kWh
Higher than 20% of the other 208 countries with a grid figure.
- The atlas has no record of this site's own power supply or emissions.
Water
Baseline water stress of the sub-basin the site lies in.
Extremely High (>80%)
This is a class, not a figure, so no percentile is given.
- 88.4% of the available supply is withdrawn in the sub-basin.
- A modelled property of the place, not a measure of the site's own water use.
- "Arid and Low Water Use" is a class of its own in the source and is not counted as high.
Land
Land visibly used by mining.
Not available per site: the atlas holds the mapped area per country only.
- Mapped from satellite images for all mining in a country. It cannot be attributed to one material or one site.
Circularity
Recycling's share of demand.
Not available per site: the atlas has no recycling figure for single sites.
There is no overall score: the four figures measure different things and are not added up. How to read these figures
Risks & policy
Export controls in force
Compiled by USGS, effective January 2026. Not a live feed.
USGS Table 4 lists no export control by Spain for the materials of this site.
Chokepoints at sea
The atlas has no record of which minerals pass through which sea passage, so no chokepoint figure is attached to this profile. Current ship counts for the main passages are on the Live page. Open the Live page
What the atlas does not know about sites
Sites come from a USGS compilation for Latin America and the Caribbean that describes 2014, the national surveys of Australia (plants, mines, critical-mineral deposits), Canada (mines, smelters, refineries, critical-mineral projects) and Sweden (mines in operation and significant prospects), a 2022 database of coal and metal mines, and mine areas mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (marked as estimated). A deposit or a project is not a mine and is never counted as one. Processing plants in Asia, Africa and Europe are mostly missing. A missing facility means it is not in these sources, not that it does not exist.
Sources
Every source this profile uses, with its licence, the years its figures describe and how sure the figures are. Each chip on the profile opens the single record.
- WU Vienna mine database v1.0.3 ↗34 records used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2002–2022
- Confidence
- Reported
- Ember Yearly Electricity Data ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2025
- Confidence
- Reported
- WRI Aqueduct 4.0 ↗1 record used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2023
- Confidence
- Estimated
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This record comes from
The database took it from: Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (2020) Annual Form 10-K Report 2019 ↗
History & talk
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