5 Challenges Facing South America’s Copper Boom
Supervisors at BHP’s Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, said they would strike at 8 a.m. local time Wednesday after government-led mediation failed to produce a contract. The union represents about 1,020 workers at a mine that supplies roughly a quarter of Chile’s copper, and the stoppage follows a walkout at Antofagasta’s Centinela that began Oct. 7.
Both land as governments across the Andes ask miners for far more copper, not less. Demand will not wait S&P Global projects that copper demand will climb from…
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