Workers at the world’s largest copper-mining operation, controlled by BHP Billiton, are expected to strike on Thursday, driving up copper prices on fears of a shortage of the metal and ...

Strikers are digging in at BHP's (NYSE:BHP) Escondida copper mine in Chile, as the union rejected a company request to pause its action and come back to the negotiation table, Reuters reported ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -A powerful workers union behind a strike at BHP's huge Escondida mine, which produced nearly 5% of the world's copper in 2023, is looking to snarl production at the site as it ...

Copper prices have increased about 400 percent in the past quarter of a century, and broke US$10,000 a tonne in April for the first time in two years. Global demand is expected to grow by up to 2. ...

The world’s biggest copper mine is in the grips of a labor conflict that risks disrupting supplies of a metal essential to the world’s manufacturing and construction industries. Wage ...

Inside the world's largest open-pit copper mine, dump trucks as big as two-story houses work around the clock to haul hundreds of tons of rock and minerals 2,790 feet (850 meters) to the surface ...

In 2013 copper output reached 450,000 tons, making it Codelco's top producing mine that year. Miners memorial . El Teniente employs 4,000 staff workers and about 11,000 contractors.

The Copper Queen Mine is open for tours seven days a week, five times a day and only closes on Christmas and Thanksgiving. The tour cost is $13 for adults and $5.50 for age 6-12.

Smoke and debris rocket into the air, then the ground shakes as far as 600 meters away. Seconds later, a boom rings out as explosives pulverize 190,000 tonnes of rock near the base of Chile's ...

Workers at the world’s largest copper mine in Chile suspended a strike launched earlier this week and restarted negotiations with Australian mining giant BHP, the union and management announced ...