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Chile’s mining industry turns to sunlight to ease energy shortage

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 11, 2013 | 5:49 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Europe Latin America Copper Gold 

[caption id="attachment_763373" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Dayton project under construction. Photo from June 2013. Courtesy of SolaireDirect.[/caption] Miners operating in the arid north of Chile, the world’s No. 1 copper producer, regularly struggle with power supply issues, but they are about...

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