wiredInUSA August 2017

Copper output cut

Output at Chile’s Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, has been damaged by the longest mining strike in the country’s history. Production dropped 63 percent in the first quarter of 2017, compared to the same period last year.

months of the year, down from 265,597 tonnes in 2016.

Escondida accounts for almost five percent of global copper production. In 2016, output reached 1.1 million tonnes. Before the strike, the company had anticipated that the mine would produce 1.07 million tonnes in the first six months of 2017.

The 44-day strike kept production to just 97,103 tonnes of copper in the first three

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