Orestone to start exploring copper-gold project in Chile
The Vancouver-based miner said that a geophysical contractor has been mobilized to the Resguardo project.
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Workers at Chile’s Chuquicamata copper mine vote to continue strike
The unions went on strike eight days earlier after initial negotiations over a new collective labor contract failed.
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Chile’s Codelco has already lost $17.5 million on Chuquicamata strike
Lost production in the first week of the labour action amounts to about 3,500 tonnes of copper.
