La Caridad
Mine · Mexico
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La Caridad is a mine in Mexico on record for copper. The source lists a capacity of 1 150 000 metric tons per year (2019).
1 150 000metric tons per year
Largest recorded annual capacity: Copper (2019). Capacity is not production.
STALE 2022
Type and status
Mine
Status not recorded in the source.
Largest recorded capacity
1 150 000metric tons per year
Copper, 2019
Latest recorded production
279 kt
Copper anode, smelter output, 2019
Water stress of the sub-basin
Arid and Low Water Use
Modelled baseline of the place, 2023
Overview
Map
- La Caridad: Mine
- Mexico
The ring marks the coordinates the source gives.
Key facts
- Type
- Mine (listed as: Mine, Smelter, Refinery)
- Country
- Mexico (MEX)
- Location (lat, lon)
- 30.4114, -109.5956
- Commodities and products, as listed
- Copper, Molybdenum, Copper Cathode, Silver
- Status, as listed
- Not recorded in the source
Another source describes the same site. The atlas draws that record on the map: La Caridad Mine (USGS OFR 2017-1079 (Latin America and the Caribbean))
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
- Mine
- Commodities and products, as listed
- Copper, Molybdenum, Copper Cathode, Silver
In Mexico
The atlas has 24 sites on record in Mexico.
Country profile: MexicoCompare 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 | 1 150 000metric tons per year | |
| Copper cathode | 300 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 · contained in mine output 2005–2019, 15 years
Copper Cathode · refinery output 2005–2019, 15 years
| Year | Tonnes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 231 600 | |
| 2018 | 239 200 | |
| 2017 | 228 100 | |
| 2016 | 224 200 | |
| 2015 | 213 400 | |
| 2014 | 204 300 | |
| 2013 | 188 000 | |
| 2012 | 213 700 | |
| 2011 | 186 900 | |
| 2010 | 84 600 | |
| 2009 | 117 100 | |
| 2008 | 140 300 | |
| 2007 | 173 300 | |
| 2006 | 200 400 | |
| 2005 | 233 700 |
Copper Rod · refinery output 2005–2019, 15 years
| Year | Tonnes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 142 700 | |
| 2018 | 147 100 | |
| 2017 | 133 100 | |
| 2016 | 144 500 | |
| 2015 | 138 200 | |
| 2014 | 129 100 | |
| 2013 | 126 800 | |
| 2012 | 120 800 | |
| 2011 | 107 900 | |
| 2010 | 57 300 | |
| 2009 | 60 100 | |
| 2008 | 76 300 | |
| 2007 | 96 600 | |
| 2006 | 96 600 | |
| 2005 | 113 200 |
Copper anode · smelter output 2005–2019, 15 years
| Year | Tonnes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 279 100 | |
| 2018 | 287 700 | |
| 2017 | 271 800 | |
| 2016 | 269 500 | |
| 2015 | 257 900 | |
| 2014 | 259 600 | |
| 2013 | 222 100 | |
| 2012 | 263 000 | |
| 2011 | 233 800 | |
| 2010 | 117 600 | |
| 2009 | 140 800 | |
| 2008 | 173 200 | |
| 2007 | 204 400 | |
| 2006 | 242 400 | |
| 2005 | 282 400 |
Copper cathode · contained in mine output 2005–2019, 15 years
| Year | Tonnes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 25 930 | |
| 2018 | 26 410 | |
| 2017 | 28 390 | |
| 2016 | 28 310 | |
| 2015 | 27 160 | |
| 2014 | 25 200 | |
| 2013 | 23 900 | |
| 2012 | 22 800 | |
| 2011 | 23 900 | |
| 2010 | 22 900 | |
| 2009 | 23 200 | |
| 2008 | 22 000 | |
| 2007 | 32 700 | |
| 2006 | 11 200 | |
| 2005 | 22 000 |
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 Mexico: the country's grid, not this site's.
481gCO2e/kWh
Higher than 53% 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.
Arid and Low Water Use
This is a class, not a figure, so no percentile is given.
- 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 Mexico 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 ↗78 records used
- Licence
- CC-BY-4.0
- As of
- 2005–2022
- 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
{n} record used
This record comes from
The database took it from: Southern Copper Corporation (2020) Annual Report 2019 ↗
History & talk
Revision history and discussion are coming soon.
Every change to a figure will be listed here with its source, its credit and its review, and each profile will have a place to discuss it. Until then the data changes only when a source is updated, and every figure links to that source.