TOKYO/SANTIAGO – Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. has concluded a contract to provide desalination and water-pumping services for a copper mine in northern Chile for 20 years, the Jiji Press reported on Tuesday. It […]
SANTIAGO – The BHP Billiton says it will spend US$2.46 billion to extend the life of a copper mine in Chile by 50 years. The expansion of the Spence open cut mine will deliver 185,000 […]
SANTIAGO – Heavy rains lashed the high altitude desert region of Antofagasta overnight and into Wednesday, suspending key operations at major mines in northern Chile. BHP Billiton’s Escondida, the world’s biggest copper mine, said it […]
SANTIAGO – South Korea’s Samsung C&T Corp., the construction and trading arm of Samsung Group, together with state-run Korea Southern Power Co. celebrated the completion of building the Kelar gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Chile, […]
SANTIAGO – Chile will produce just under 5.6 million metric tons of copper this year, up 0.8% from 2016, as the recent strike at the giant Escondida mine wiped out much of an expected increase […]
SANTIAGO – A historically long 43-day strike at BHP Billiton’s (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) Escondida copper mine in Chile, the world’s largest, will have less of an impact in the country’s overall annual production that originally […]
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