SANTIAGO – Chile’s state-owned miner Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, on Friday reported a 86% increase in its profit for the first nine months of the year on Friday, to US$1,124 billion, amid an […]
SANTIAGO – Unionized copper mine workers in Chile asked to be included in a dialogue between companies and the government to address the exploding coronavirus crisis in the world´s top producer of the red metal. […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean copper miners’ unions called on Sunday for a re-evaluation of the operational continuity plans of the country’s biggest miners during what they said was an “alarming” increase in coronavirus cases among workers. […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Federation of Copper Workers (FTC) on Saturday reported the death of one its officials from coronavirus at the world’s largest copper miner, Codelco. The 48-year-old victim, who belonged to the Mine Crushing […]
SANTIAGO – President Sebastian Piñera on Wednesday presented new electric vehicles that will be used by the Chilean government, in an initiative to promote electromobility. In his speech at the Plaza de la Constitución (Constitution […]
LIMA – Peru’s top tin-producing company, Minsur, is aiming to start production in 2020/2021, with output set to reach 102,000 tonnes of copper and 58,000 tonnes of copper cathode per year. The Peruvian company has […]
LIMA – Peruvian mining attracted investments of 2.36 billion U.S. dollars during the first eight months of the year, according to the country’s minister of Energy and Mines. Although international markets are suffering from a […]
SANTIAGO – Chile posted a trade deficit of $302 million in August, its first in two years, alongside a decline in exports of copper, its principal product, the central bank reported on Friday. Copper exports […]
SANTIAGO – The Santiago Stock Exchange fell slightly on Thursday, as purchases of external funds in leading securities helped offset the initial pessimism by the marked weakness in the price of copper, Chile’s largest export. […]
SANTAGO – Chilean copper producer Antofagasta has sold its electricity transmission business Centinela Transmisión to Red Eléctrica Chile SpA, a subsidiary of Red Eléctrica Internacional, for US$117 million. On Friday, the company said the sale of the unit […]
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