Chile’s copper output jumps in December
Worker washing copper cathodes at an electrowinning plant in a copper mine in Chile. Stock image.
Copper output in Chile, the world’s largest producer of the red metal, increased 14.3% year-on-year in December to 566,547 metric tons, the country’s INE statistics agency said on Friday.
Manufacturing production in the Andean nation was up 8.4% in the period from a year earlier, the agency added.
(By Fabian Cambero and Natalia Siniawski; Editing by Gabriel Araujo)
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