News of the strike comes amid an historic $583 million reinvestment plan for Codelco announced by the government.

Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have shown that mining the Main Belt of asteroids that orbit between Mars and Jupiter could be done profitably.

Glencore Energy admitted to paying more than $28 million in bribes to secure preferential access to oil in five countries.

The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu closed it in 2018 after 13 people died when police opened fire on protesters.

The decision is based on the government’s desire to guarantee the growth of the mining sector, which is responsible for 63% of the country's exports.