ANTOFAGASTA – Black dust stains the walls of the building where Jaqueline Jimenez and her children once lived in northern Chile. In an industrial city like Antofagasta, there is perhaps nothing so unusual in that […]
SANTIAGO – Copper prices lost ground in April, compounding the slight fall observed in March. Copper prices averaged U.S Dollar 2.58 per pound (equivalent to $5,682 per ton) in April, representing a 2.5% monthly decline […]
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 […]
SANTIAGO – A fall in mining and business services in the final quarter of 2016 put Chile’s economy in slump, according to the central bank. Statistics show Chile’economy contracted by 0.4 percent in the final […]
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