Copper output from Codelco slips 7% in September
Codelco’s Chuquicamata is the world’s largest open pit copper mine. (Image courtesy of Codelco via Flickr)
Copper production from Chilean state-run miner Codelco slid more than 7% in September, data from copper commission Cochilco showed on Monday, falling to 115,600 metric tons.
Meanwhile production at BHP’s Escondida mine, the world’s largest copper mine, climbed nearly 17% to 118,600 tons.
At Collahuasi, another major copper mine jointly run by Glencore and Anglo American, output fell 26% to 38,000 tons.
(By Kylie Madry and Fabian Cambero; Editing by Brendan O’Boyle)
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