Date: 08 February 2025 , 01:22
News ID: 11741

Copper production from Chile rose nearly 5% last year

me-metals: Copper output from Chile, the metal’s top global producer, rose 4.9% to reach 5.5 million metric tons last year, according to data from copper commission Cochilco released on Friday.

According to me-metals cited from mining.com, Commission data also showed that December copper production from state-owned miner Codelco rose almost 22% in the month to reach 172,700 tons.

Production from BHP’s Escondida mine, the world’s largest copper mine, increased 51% in December to total 133,600 tons while major mine Collahuasi, jointly run by Glencore and Anglo American, saw its output of the key industrial metal fall 32% to settle at 41,200 tons.

ource: mining.com