Iron ore mining company BHP is set to advance with a $2bn (A$3.16bn) investment plan to optimise the concentrator at Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, as part of a broader $10.8bn (10 ...

Mines typically have plans to reduce operations without affecting facilities or equipment. Escondida produced 1.1 million tonnes of copper last year. The strike, after the union encouraged members ...

Major copper mines also started to come back online on Wednesday. Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, expects to return to regular operations in the next few hours, a source close to the ...

SANTIAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - BHP will move forward with a $2 billion plan to optimize its concentrator at Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, as part of its investment plan in Chile ...

SANTIAGO — Chilean authorities said they restored power to most homes on Wednesday, hours after a massive, rare blackout caused transport chaos in the capital and forced the nation's president to ...

Most types of copper deposits also have secondary ores, however, and they can add a great deal of value to a deposit. The Escondida mine is primarily a chalcopyrite porphyry deposit overlain by ...

Countries such as the US, Argentina and Saudi Arabia are making “sizeable” efforts to reform their mining sector and attract ...

Chile is also home to BHP’s (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP) Escondida, the largest copper mine in the world with an annual output in the 2 million metric ton range. According to MDO, BHP owns a 57.5 ...

BHP will move forward with a $2 billion plan to optimize its concentrator at Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine, as part of its investment plan in Chile, the company said in a statement ...