The Canadian miner’s reinvention as a critical-metals player—via its massive copper mine in Chile’s Andean foothills— could ...

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 ...

Chile's power grid and major copper mines slowly came back online on Wednesday morning after a major outage hit the world's top producer of the red metal, with power firms working to restore the ...

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 ...

Some of the world's largest copper mines in Chile have resumed operations after experiencing a disruption due to a major power outage. The outage, resulting from a transmission line failure in ...

The world’s largest copper producer, BHP’s Escondida copper mine in Chile. Credit: Caterpillar Canada and Australia could trail emerging mining nations such as Argentina if their governments ...

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 ...

(Alliance News) - London remained in the red at midday on Wednesday, with miners among those keeping a lid on the FTSE 100, while stocks in New York a... (Sharecast News) - London stocks closed ...

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 ...

BHP (NYSE:BHP) will advance a $2B plan to optimize its concentrator at Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, as part of its investment plan in Chile, and soon will submit the mine's plan for ...

A massive power outage in Chile has hit copper production in the world’s biggest exporter as it plunged the capital city of Santiago into darkness, prompting the declaration of a state of emergency.